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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 04/23/1504 |
Guru Angad, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 04/23/1751 |
Gilbert Aliat Minto, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 04/23/1774 |
British Commander Colonel Chapman defeated Rohilla's army and captured Ruhelkhand. |
| 04/23/1795 |
East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges. |
| 04/23/1858 |
Pandita Ramabai, social reformer and philosopher, was born in the State of Mysore. |
| 04/23/1913 |
Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born. |
| 04/23/1926 |
Madhavrao Sapre, great political leader, passed away. |
| 04/23/1928 |
Narasimha Murtey, educationist, was born at Nandur, A.P. |
| 04/23/1929 |
Ranjit Film Co. was founded by Chandulal Shah and Gohar at Bombay. |
| 04/23/1929 |
The Fate of the Outlaw', a 7-reel film produced by Majestic Film Co. was prohibited by the Board of Censors, Bombay, on April 23 on the grounds that the film glorifieds crime. |
| 04/23/1930 |
Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers. |
| 04/23/1938 |
Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand. |
| 04/23/1946 |
Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, exchanging its Spitfire Vllls for Mk XlVs in October and arriving in Japan aboard HMS vengence. |
| 04/23/1955 |
Political Committee of Asian-African Conference at Bandung adopted an Indian resolution calling for a ban on atomic weapons. |
| 04/23/1959 |
Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma. |
| 04/23/1968 |
Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away. |
| 04/23/1987 |
Supreme Court in a judgement confers Hindu widows absolute ownership of property under Hindu Succession Act 1956. |
| 04/23/1991 |
Major parties agree to have polls in Punjab. |
| 04/23/1992 |
Satyajit Ray, internationally famous Indian film producer-director, Bharat Ratna Awardee, passed away at the age of 70. |
| 04/23/1994 |
Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait, former Indian Union Muslim League president, floats a new party - the Indian National League. |
| 04/23/2000 |
Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 03/22/1963 | World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways. |
| 01/06/1942 | Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world. |
| 12/29/1949 | Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras. |
| 07/15/1986 | India protests against China's intrusion of six to seven km into the Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 10/26/1999 | India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). |
| 04/27/1996 | First phase of election for 11th Lok Sabha, and assembly election in 6 states. |
| 11/05/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
| 01/15/1918 | K.C.D. Brahaspati, great poet, playwright and orientalist, was born at Rampur, UP. |
| 09/04/1999 | Umesh Chandra, Assistant Inspector General of Police, shot dead by the PWG in Hyderabad. |
| 03/03/1990 | JD-BJP coalition government in Gujarat, Chimanbhai Patel to become CM; Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra and Bhairon Singh Shekhewat of BJP to head the BJP-JD coalition government in Rajasthan. |
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