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Significance of 22nd March:



World Water Day is an annual UN observance day that highlights the importance of freshwater. This day is used to advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.


Bihar Diwas or Bihar Day, is celebrated on March 22 to mark the formation of the state of Bihar. It is a public holiday in the state. On this day, the British carved out the state of Bihar from Bengal in 1912.


1739- Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.

1977- Indira Gandhi resigned as the Prime Minister of India.

1982- NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.

1993- The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.

2020- India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi announced the country’s largest ever self-imposed curfew, called ‘Janata Curfew’.



Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:

1849- Annada Prasad Bagchi was a Bengali portrait painter and oil painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

1883- Jogendranath Gupta was an Indian historian, writer and editor of Bengali literature.

1885- Ghulam Yazdani was an Indian archaeologist. He was also awarded with the Padma Bhushan Award by the Indian government in 1959.

1894- Surya Sen was an Indian revolutionary and played a significant role in the Indian independence movement against British rule. He is best known for leading the Chittagong Armoury Raid in 1930.

1918- Amiya Bhushan Majumdar was an Indian novelist, short-story writer, essayist and playwright.



Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:

1971- Hanuman Prasad Poddar was an Indian independence activist, littérateur, magazine editor and philanthropist.

2004- Vithal Mahadeo Tarkunde was a prominent Indian lawyer, civil rights activist, and humanist leader and has been referred to as the "Father of the Civil Liberties movement" in India and a former judge of the Bombay High Court.

2005- Ramasamy Ganesan was an Indian actor who worked mainly in Tamil cinema.

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