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Historical Event on 05/22/1545
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-2).
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| 5/10/1927 | Nayantara Sahgal, famous writer and social reformer, was born. |
| 2/19/1949 | Mass arrests of communists in India. |
| 7/2/1929 | Amritlal Basu, famous Bengali playwright, died. |
| 1/5/1994 | Jnanpith Award was given to U. R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada). |
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