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Historical Event on 8/22/1992

Congress (I) with its allies secures a simple majority in the Lok Sabha following the merger of Telugu Desam into the party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/7/1995India opens second consulate in UK in Glasgow (first being at Birmingham).
1/9/1935Harishankar Sharma, great educationist, was born at Jaipur.
5/21/1966General Election (11th) of India ends.
2/9/1874Govind Tryambak Darekar, Marathi poet, was born.
5/20/1992V. Prabhakaran, LTTE supremo, heads the list of 41 accused in the SIT chargesheet.
8/8/1967Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha.
9/25/1990Sabyasachi Mukherji, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, aged 63, died in London.
11/18/1727Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India.
1/11/1859Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born.
11/30/1994Laxmi Menon, former Foreign state minister, died.