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Historical Event on 7/22/1918

During the First World War, India's first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai's plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for Britisher's Force.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
1/22/1990FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case.
1/22/1990Vasco De Gama departed with his fleet from Lisbon Harbour for a trip to India .
5/21/1835Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born.
4/11/1999Tamil Nadu men, Railways women emerged National Volleyball League champions in Triprayar.
6/11/1995PM leaves for 4-day official visit to France.
9/1/1988Fatte Singrao Gaekwad of Baroda, former Member of Parliament, passed away.
11/15/2000Congress(I) gives a thumping mandate to Sonia Gandhi.
5/9/1995Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine. More than 1,000 houses burnt.
5/9/1995Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.