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Historical Event on 5/22/1989

IRBM 'Agni' Missile launched successfully from Chandipur, Orissa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/31/1997Forex reserves touch a record $ 22.36 billions.
8/20/1986A restructured 20-point programme announced.
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
9/30/2000India's Priyanka Chopra (18) wins the Miss World beauty pageant.
4/2/1980S. S. Grewal was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-04-1981.
2/26/1966Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet.
7/20/1982Mira Behn (90), disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away.
9/29/1992Andhra CM Janardhana Reddy resigned.
3/20/1994Pakistan closes down its consulate in Bombay.
11/19/1998A. B. Vajpayee approves formation of the National Security Council, a new high-power hub, to give policy directions to safeguard the country's security.