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Historical Event on 4/22/1992
IAF in response to a recommendation by Secretary General, the Security Council adopted resolution No. 751 (1992) by which it established UNOSOM for handling situation which had deteriorated to an extent where death and destruction forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes and causing need for emergency humanitarian assistance.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/15/1996 | Kerala CM Nayanar says Governors are not necessary in states. |
8/1/1958 | Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership given to Acharya Bhave. |
1/26/1950 | India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation. |
11/12/1880 | Senapati Bapat (Pandurang Mahadev), armed freedom fighter, was born in Parnar (Maharashtra). |
10/31/1999 | Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award. |
8/25/1996 | 194 pilgrims die of cold at the cave temples of Amarnath . |
2/11/1980 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, passed away. |
3/26/1996 | Indian all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar announces retirement from international cricket. |
7/6/2000 | Mohan Lal bags Best Actor Award for his sensitive portrayal of a Kathakali artist in ''Vaanasprastham'' and the film wins the Best Feature Film and Best Editing Awards at the 47th National Film Festival-2000. |
9/26/1820 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal. |
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