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Historical Event on 4/22/1996
National Stock Exchange launches a new equity index - the NSE 50.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/22/1996 | Khidr Khan Syed, Governor of Lahore, replaced Daulat Khan Lodi on Delhi's throne. |
| 1/6/1664 | Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked on Surat. |
| 10/4/1999 | Kerala High Court orders Election Commission to booth-wise counting. The EC is likely to move the Supreme Court against this order. |
| 9/10/2000 | Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship. |
| 2/15/1967 | Fourth General Election of Lok Sabha begins. |
| 8/3/1998 | India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea. |
| 8/3/1998 | Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
| 6/17/1917 | Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba started living at Hriday Kunj in Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. |
| 2/3/1873 | Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 5/3/1913 | Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay. |
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