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Historical Event on 12/23/1995

400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/22/1992Harshad Mehta released after 110 days in jail.
4/20/1971India won Cricket Test Rubber' for the first time after defeating West Indies Cricket Team.
1/24/1966Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government.
12/14/1953Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born.
8/9/1952New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.
7/7/1943Rasbehari Bose handed over the command of 'Azad Hind Fauz' to Netaji Subhashchandra Bose at Singapore.
1/1/19958th World Tamil Conference begins in Madurai.
5/15/1996The 11th Lok Sabha constituted as Election Commission submits a list of 534 successful candidates to President.
9/25/2000A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.
2/6/1932Veena Das, revolutionary freedom fighter, shot Stenly Jackson, Governor of Calcutta at the convocation ceremony of B.A. degree, but Jackson was afraid and bend down, thus the aim was missed.