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Historical Event on 8/23/1994
Arati Gupta (Saha) succumbed to an incurable jaundice. (29-9-99).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/16/1905 | Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement. |
| 3/23/1910 | Dr. Ram Manohar Hiralal Lohia also known as ""Dauntless Dr. Lohia"", freedom fighter and socialist leader, was born at Akbarpur, district Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. He had founded Praja Socialist Party in 1952. |
| 9/13/1928 | Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away. |
| 10/6/1949 | Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of National Defence Academy in Kharakvasla near Pune. |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 5/28/1989 | Kerala diocese of Marathakavalli was the first Christian priest in India. |
| 1/18/1998 | Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 2/3/1998 | The BJP releases its election manifesto promising to make India a nuclear state; build a Ram temple at Ayodha and work for a uniform civil code. |
| 5/18/1998 | India talks with the US on the nuclear tests. |
| 8/1/1920 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindu leader, died at Bombay. |
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