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Historical Event on 4/22/1999
Lok Sabha passes the 1999-2000 general budget through voice vote but without a debate and without amendments.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/23/1997 | Justice J. S. Verma appointed Chief Justice of India. |
| 1/3/1997 | Government announces setting up of a Central Board for bank frauds. |
| 1/3/1997 | 24 merchants gathered in London's Founder Hall under the auspices of Lord Mayor to start a new company with a share captial in India. |
| 8/25/1975 | Bundelkhand University was established in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 1/9/1995 | T.N. Seshan, chief election commissioner, asks Centre to put off annual budget in lieu of State assembly elections. |
| 2/14/1628 | 5th Mughal Emperor Shahjahan was crowned. |
| 9/19/1962 | Jawaharlal Nehru was devastated when China began attacks on India's northern frontier leading to Indo-China War. |
| 11/15/1982 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave, great freedom fighter and social reformer, died (88 years) in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra. |
| 10/27/1907 | Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
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