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Historical Event on 1/22/1990

FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/25/1921Mass boycott greets the Prince of Wales when he arrives in Calcutta.
6/13/1996Ramakrishna Hegde, JD leader and former Karnataka CM, expelled from the party for 6 years by JD president Laloo Prasad Yadav for anti-party activities.
2/26/1901The notes of Rs twenty denomination were issued with two issuing circles. These notes had four numeric denominations.
11/11/1906Chetput Ramaswami Pattabhi Raman, politician and social worker, was born at Madras.
4/13/1982Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal passed away.
12/4/1919Inderkumar Gujral, former Prime Minister of India, was born at Jhelum (Pakistan).
10/16/1905Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement.
4/7/1938Kashiram Chhabildas Rana was born in Surat (Gujarat).
4/11/1964Communist Party of India was divided in two parts. Firstly known as Communist Party of India [CPI], its second fragmentation was named as Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)]. This division was on ideological differences at the international level.
9/5/1846Sir Charles Metkaf, Governor General of East India Company, died.