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Historical Event on 5/22/1970
Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/20/1915 | Gandhiji founded Satyagraha Ashram (later known as Sabarmati Ashram after the name of the river) at Ahmedabad. |
| 6/22/1880 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam. |
| 8/10/1905 | Sundarji Gokuldas Betard, modern Gujrathi poet, was born. |
| 12/22/1871 | Lord Edward Allanbaro, governor general of India (1842-1844), died. |
| 8/13/1954 | Nehru says dispute over Portuguese colonies in India must be settled peacefully. |
| 2/19/1956 | Acharya Narendra Dev, the veteran freedom fighter, revolutionary, thinker and Chairman of PSP, passed away. |
| 7/15/1902 | Judge K. Subba Rao, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 2/6/1952 | George VI (1895-1952), King of the United Kingdom, died of lung cancer at the age of 56 (succeeded by daughter, Elizabeth II). In 1947, His title of Emperor of India was deleted. |
| 12/23/1977 | Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born. |
| 1/3/1995 | PM inaugurates 82nd Indian Science Congress at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. |
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