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Historical Event on 9/22/1979

Israel conducts nuclear test at Indian Ocean.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/20/1974Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed elected President of India with B. D. Jatti as Vice President.
6/17/1917Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba started living at Hriday Kunj in Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad.
11/29/1961First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India.
1/17/1997Supreme Court bans all non-forest activities including running of saw mills and mining in forest areas.
1/26/1957Shivlal Nandlal Yadav, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87), was born in Hyderabad.
9/7/1996Ajit Singh quits Congress and heads Tikait's party.
2/27/1992Narasimha Rao elected Congress (I) President in the party poll held after a gap of 20 years.
3/30/1993Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
3/30/1993Qutubu'd-din Aibak (1206-1210) was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri. He was originally a slave of Turkestan. As he started his career as a slave, the dynasty founded by him in India is known as ""Slave Dynasty"". The construction of Qutabminar was started during his regime. Since he was very generous, the people called him ""Lakh Baksh"".
12/13/1899Pandurang Satu Naik, famous film photographer of Indian film industry, was born.