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Historical Event on 8/22/2000
Parliament okays two Constitutional Amendment Bills restoring relaxations in marks for promotion in government jobs to SC/STs and exempting Arunachal from reservation for SCs.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/19/2000 | Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry. |
| 8/3/1954 | Atomic Energy Department established. |
| 6/4/1903 | Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban. |
| 6/28/1883 | Shivprasad Gupta, social reformer, politician, leader, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, was born at Varanasi. |
| 2/13/1922 | The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence. |
| 11/9/1897 | Kotamaraju Rama Rao, founder-editor of Lucknow's ""National Herald"", was born at Chirala. He was referred by Gandhiji as 'Fighting Edit |
| 10/28/1997 | Gold import placed under Open General Licence. |
| 4/30/1936 | Mahatma Gandhi started staying in Sevagram Ashram at Wardha in the Central Provinces, making it his headquarters. |
| 10/10/1937 | Anant Bhave, famous Marathi litterateur and news announcer on Doordarshan, was born. |
| 2/11/1996 | Wills World Cup Cricket inaugurated at Calcutta. |
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