21 MAY HISTORY TODAY

Today in Indian History
Events for May 22

22-May-1545	Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway
22-May-1772	Raja Ram Mohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician and founder of Brahmo Samaj, was born at Radhanagar in Hooghly district, Bengal. (1771 or 1772)
22-May-1917	Suniti Chaudhary, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Kumilla. She was one of the accused in the famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka.
22-May-1927	Nihal Ahmed Maulavi Mo. Usman, leader in Maharashtra, was born.
22-May-1927	M. S. Shivsankaraiyah, cricket test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Andhra Pradesh.
22-May-1936	Lord Brabourne laid the foundation stone of Brabourne Stadium in Bombay.
22-May-1940	Erapalli Anantrao Srinivasarao Prasanna, cricketer (one of India's big four spinners, Right-arm Off-break Bowler), was born at Bangalore. He is also the receipent of Arjun Award (1968) and Padmashree (1970).
22-May-1953	Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World).
22-May-1961	Jnanpeeth Award was instituted and the first award was given in 1965. This award is given for the best creative literary writing by any Indian citizen in any of the languages included in the VIII Schedule of the Indian Constitution. The award carries a cash price of Rs 2.5 lakh, a citation and a bronze momento.
22-May-1963	Rohini, Glider, became the first to successfully fly at Kanpur.
22-May-1970	Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'.
22-May-1989	IRBM 'Agni' Missile launched successfully from Chandipur, Orissa.
22-May-1991	Elections scheduled to be held on 23, 26 deferred to 12, 15 of June.
22-May-1991	Sonia unanimously elected Congress President by the Working Committee. She, however, declined the offer.
22-May-1991	Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away.
22-May-1992	India launches its 'Agni' rocket.
22-May-1993	Karnataka special task force guns down Veerappan's brother and righthand man Arjunan.
22-May-1993	Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections.
22-May-1996	11th Lok Sabha's first session begins.
22-May-1996	Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.
22-May-1996	United Front prime ministerial candidate H.D. Deve Gowda unanimously elected leader of the Front's parliamentary party.
22-May-1997	At least 40 persons are killed and over 300 injured in an earthquake which hit Jabalpur city.