HISTORY QUIZ OF THE DAY (Oct-22)

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Oct 22, 2008 :: CHANDRAYAAN-1 :: On this day, India launched its first satellite for the .

Oct 22, 1986 :: ALBERT Szent GYORGYI :: Died this day, he was a physiologist and a Nobel Prize laureate.

Oct 22, 1965 :: The second Kashmir War between ended on this day.

Oct 22, 1962 :: On this day, the US President John F. Kennedy announced that American spy planes had discovered Soviet in Cuba, and consequently he ordered a naval " " of the island.

Oct 22, 1960 :: MALI :: It got Independence from on this day.

Oct 22, 1953 :: LAOS :: On this day, it gained from France.

Oct 22, 1949 :: The detonated its first nuclear bomb on this day.

Oct 22, 1946 :: DEEPAK CHOPRA :: Born this day, he is an public speaker, and writer on , spirituality and mind-body medicine. Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his focus to medicine. Chopra was a top to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before launching his own career in the late 1980s by publishing self-help books on and alternative medicine.

Oct 22, 1797 :: The first recorded jump was made on this day by Andre-Jacques Garnerin from a height of one thousand metres above Paris.

Oct 22, 1764 :: Battle of was fought on this day between the forces under the command of the British East India Company, and the armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Oudh; and Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor. By winning this battle the English established their rule in .

Oct 22, 1688 :: NADIR SHAH :: Nadir Shah of was born this day.

Oct 22, 1383 :: The two year long period of civil war and disorder in began on this day, when King Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.

Oct 22, 1197 :: JUNTOKU :: born this day, he was an of Japan.