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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 7/23/1903 |
Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903 |
| 7/23/1856 |
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on July 23rd, 1856 |
| 7/23/1856 |
Humayun reconquered Delhi after defeating Sher - Shar Alias Sikandar Suri in Machiwara and Sarhind battles. It is said that he won the crown but not the empire. |
| 7/23/1856 |
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. |
| 7/23/1898 |
Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born. |
| 7/23/1904 |
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains. |
| 7/23/1906 |
Chandrashekhar Azad, great freedom revolutionery and leader, was born at Jhabra, Madhya Pradesh. |
| 7/23/1912 |
Kilachand Ambalal, great industrialist, was born. |
| 7/23/1918 |
Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 7/23/1923 |
Navinchandra Chimanlal Pandya, great educationist, was born at Prantij, Ahmedabad. |
| 7/23/1927 |
Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station. |
| 7/23/1933 |
Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, great leader, lawyer, social worker, freedom fighter, nationalist and president of Bengal Swaraj Party, died at Ranchi. He was addresed by the people of Bengal as 'Deshapriya' (Beloved of the Country). |
| 7/23/1956 |
India celebrates the birth centenary of Bal Gangadhar ""Lokmanya"" Tilak. |
| 7/23/1964 |
Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 7/23/1976 |
Hari Chand at Montreal sets record for 10,000m in 28.48.72. |
| 7/23/1988 |
Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), died. |
| 7/23/1990 |
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow. |
| 7/23/1991 |
Premdatt Paliwal, president of All India Forward Block, died. |
| 7/23/1993 |
Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2B), second satellite in the INSAT-2 series, was launched. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was aunched by European Ariane launch vehicle. |
| 7/23/1996 |
India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta. |
| 7/23/1996 |
R. Bhattacharji was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He is heading this office till date. |
| 7/23/1997 |
India decides to sign U.N. Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. |
| 7/23/2000 |
Ram Jethmalani, Union Law Minister, quits the Cabinet after the Prime Minister shows him the door following the outbursts against the Chief Justice of India, Dr. A. S. Anand. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/22/1982 | South-South Conference opens in New Delhi. |
| 7/7/1896 | The premier show of the 'Marvel of the Century', first cinema show India, arranged by the Representatives of French Lumiere brothers- Louis and August Lumiere, was held at Watson Hotel in Bombay. The regular shows, however, started from July 14, 1896 at the Novelty Theatre. This show advertisment appeared in the 'Times of India', carrying details of a film show to be held for the first time on Indian soil. |
| 10/16/1999 | Congress (I)-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) combine is invited to form the Government in Maharashtra. Vilasrao Deshmukh to be sworn in as Chief Minister. |
| 9/22/1891 | Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away. |
| 1/28/1998 | All 26 accused, who stood trial in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, were sentenced to death. A designated Judge of the TADA court in Chennai found them guilty. |
| 9/26/1996 | Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966. |
| 3/3/1952 | The Indian National Congress secured absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the General elections. |
| 10/9/1987 | Official Languages Rules, 1976 amended. |
| 11/20/1990 | Union Government asks Supreme Court to repeal the $470 million Bhopal Gas settlement order. |
| 1/2/1993 | Allahabad court allows 'darshan' at Ayodhya. |
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