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Historical Event on 8/22/1919

Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born.

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2/3/1905Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
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12/9/1989Shyama Charan Shukla sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
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