On This Day
22 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1944 Kasturbai Gandhi, political activist and wife of Mahatma Gandhi, died at Pune. She married Mohandas Gandhi in 1883. With her husband and son, she was involved in the Indian independence movement in British India. She was, to a great extent, influenced by her husband. National Safe Motherhood Day is observed on her birth anniversary, 11 April, every year.
- 1958 Abul Kalam Azad, independence activist, Islamic theologian, writer and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress, died at Delhi. Following India's independence, he became the First Minister of Education in the Indian government.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1857 Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was born.
- 1901 Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 64 years.
- 1932 Adolf Hitler is declared as the Nazi Party candidate for the presidential elections in Germany.
- 1997 Dolly the Sheep, world's first cloned mammal (from an adult cell) is announced by the Roslin Institute in Scotland.
- ⭐ Significance
- International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism. The day was first announced by UNESCO in 1999.
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