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Historical Event on 12/22/1966

U.S. announces allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight famine in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/4/1849Jyotirindranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur and poet, was born.
12/8/1985The first summit was held at Dhaka. (7 0r 8).
4/10/1875Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj at Bombay and in 1877 in Lahore.
10/9/1946Jinnah's 9-point demands conveyed to Congress.
11/27/1994D. V. Purohit (Nanasaheb), veteran freedom figher and revolutionary, passed away.
11/21/1963First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme.
11/11/1793English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.
4/27/2000Arun Bharat Ram takes over as the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry.
9/3/1999Brigadier V. K. Chopra is appointed as the new head of the 121 (1) infantry brigade in Kargil.
12/15/1997Orissa Janata Dal unit splits with 29 of 43 Legislature Party members forming 'Biju Janata Dal'.