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Historical Event on 4/23/1751
Gilbert Aliat Minto, governor general of East India Company, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/3/1960 | Gopal Sharma, great Indian cricket off-spinner (2 Tests 1984-85), was born in Kanpur. |
| 2/6/1998 | V. V. S. Laxman scores 301* for Hyderabad against Bihar. |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
| 6/5/1980 | Manipur University was established. |
| 7/8/1930 | The King opens India House in the Aldwych, appealing for peace in India at London. |
| 11/7/1990 | National Front Government headed by V. P. Singh loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha (151-356). Singh tenders his resignation and this is the end of 11-month-old National Front Government. |
| 9/5/1846 | Sir Charles Metkaf, Governor General of East India Company, died. |
| 6/22/1897 | The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter. |
| 11/1/1991 | J.N. Dixit appointed the next Foreign Secretary. |
| 12/26/1989 | India debars Bofors from future contracts until they come out clean. |
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