New York Indian Community - NewYorkindian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 10/23/1996

Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/3/1998Kavi Pradeep, Hindi film lyricist, is selected for the 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke award.
7/3/1998Origin of Fasli Era (India).
5/2/1985Banarsidas Chaturvedi, famous writer and journalist, passed away.
2/3/1994Akash' missile launched successfully.
4/20/2000A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.
6/25/16586th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail.
6/25/1658Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same.
6/8/1897Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
5/20/1991A. S. L. V. was launched.
2/28/1997Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presents an action-packed budget for 1997-98.