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Historical Event on 12/22/1928
An Alpine Romance', a 709 feet long sound film produced by Universal Picture Corporation, America, was the first sound film censored at Bombay on December 22. The other sound films censored on the same day were 'The Brox Sisters' and 'Bailey and Barnum.'
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| 9/7/1931 | Meena Mangeshkar, famous playback singer, was born. |
| 12/3/1971 | Third Pakistani aggression begins with air attacks on airports in the western sector; emergency declared. |
| 8/16/1901 | Shripad Ramchandra Tikekar, journalist and critic, was born. |
| 2/6/1949 | India to nationalize the estate of Nizam, the world's richest man, from Hyderabad. |
| 9/20/1932 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" (hunger strike) in Poona prison to secure abolition of separate electorates for Harijans and untouchables. |
| 1/22/1877 | Tarun Ram Phookun, ''Deshabhakta'', great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, was born in Gauhati, district Kamrup, Assam. |
| 11/20/1955 | Polly Umrigar scores India's first Test double century, 223 vs NZ. |
| 11/20/1955 | Saint Namdev passed away. |
| 4/8/1937 | R. Gundurao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka and senior leader of Indira Congress, was born. |
| 8/17/1882 | Sir Ram Nath Chopra, noted professor of Pharmacology, was born. |
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