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Historical Event on 1/23/1960

Laxmi Narayan Garde, famous journalist related to ""Venkateshwar Samachar"", ""Bangawasi"", ""Bharat Mitra"" and ""Navjeevan"" newspapers, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/30/1992The Supreme Court declares that capitation fee in educational institutions is unlawful.
5/11/1999Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19.
12/6/1987MiG-29, re-christened `Baaz', inducted into the Indian Air Force.
11/15/1999Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.
6/6/1990GOI decides to extend validity of passports to 10 years.
11/10/1960First Nagpur session of Maharashtra State.
11/24/1926Aurobindo Ghose, former I.C.S. and revolutionary, attained full enlightenment I.e 'Purna Siddhi'.
1/22/1990The International Literacy Campaign was launced in the country by the Prime Minister at a national function held at New Delhi. (8-9-90).
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.
12/14/1920Akali Dal established.