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Historical Event on 2/23/1993
India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/11/1923 | Shamasunder Gururaj Mudgal, great educationist, was born at Bijapur, Bagalkot. |
12/20/1999 | Win Chadha ready to come to India to face trial in the Bofors case. |
10/17/1859 | Keshavlal Harshrai Dhruv, researcher and translator, was born. |
11/20/1999 | P.G.S. Mony, Indian scientist, is honoured by the French Government. |
8/20/1993 | Mother Teresa hospitalized for malaria. |
1/25/1999 | Dr. R. Chidambaram, nuclear scientist, among the 14 distinguished personalities chosen for Padma Vibhushan. Sachin Tendulkar and Ruskin Bond get Padma Shri. |
11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
10/2/1910 | Frank C. Brown, educationist and social worker, was born. |
6/2/1992 | The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam. |
3/22/1969 | The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated. |
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