Year 1908
Lokmanya Tilak was sentenced to 6 years in prison for writing an infamous article on the ‘country’s misfortune’.
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22 July: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 22 July.
Year 1931
Vasudev Balwant Gogte Gun fired at Sir John Hotson, the governor of Mumbai province, in the library of Ferguson College. Hotson survived.
Year 1942
Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto began.
Year 1944
Communist rule began in Poland.
Year 1981
India’s first geostationary satellite APPLE started functioning.
Year 2011
2011 Norway attacks: first a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
Year 2013
2013 Dingxi earthquakes, a series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.
Year 2019
India’s lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2 successfully took off from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota aiming to be the fourth nation to soft-land on the moon.
Born 1898
Pandit Vinayak Patwardhan, an Indian vocalist of Gwalior Gharana of Indian classical music.
Born 1915
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, a Pakistani politician from Bengal, diplomat, and author.
Born 1923
Mukesh, an Indian playback singer.
Born 1923
Sumitra Devi, an Indian actress.
Born 1925
Daasarathi Krishnamacharya, a Telugu poet, and writer.
Born 1929
Baselios Thomas I, Indian bishop
Born 1930
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, an Indian American mathematician.
Born 1933
C. V. Sridhar, an Indian screenwriter, and film director.
Born 1937
Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
Born 1959
Ajit Pawar, an Indian politician.
Born 1970
Devendra Fadnavis, an Indian politician. He served as the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
Born 1992
Selena Gomez, an American singer, actress, and producer.
Born 1995
Armaan Malik, Indian playback singer, composer and songwriter
Died 1918
Indra Lal Roy, the sole Indian World War I flying ace.
Died 1937
Kottarathil Sankunni, an Indian writer of Malayalam literature.
Died 1948
Hemendranath Majumdar, an Indian painter.