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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 04/23/1504 |
Guru Angad, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 04/23/1751 |
Gilbert Aliat Minto, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 04/23/1774 |
British Commander Colonel Chapman defeated Rohilla's army and captured Ruhelkhand. |
| 04/23/1795 |
East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges. |
| 04/23/1858 |
Pandita Ramabai, social reformer and philosopher, was born in the State of Mysore. |
| 04/23/1913 |
Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born. |
| 04/23/1926 |
Madhavrao Sapre, great political leader, passed away. |
| 04/23/1928 |
Narasimha Murtey, educationist, was born at Nandur, A.P. |
| 04/23/1929 |
Ranjit Film Co. was founded by Chandulal Shah and Gohar at Bombay. |
| 04/23/1929 |
The Fate of the Outlaw', a 7-reel film produced by Majestic Film Co. was prohibited by the Board of Censors, Bombay, on April 23 on the grounds that the film glorifieds crime. |
| 04/23/1930 |
Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers. |
| 04/23/1938 |
Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand. |
| 04/23/1946 |
Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, exchanging its Spitfire Vllls for Mk XlVs in October and arriving in Japan aboard HMS vengence. |
| 04/23/1955 |
Political Committee of Asian-African Conference at Bandung adopted an Indian resolution calling for a ban on atomic weapons. |
| 04/23/1959 |
Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma. |
| 04/23/1968 |
Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away. |
| 04/23/1987 |
Supreme Court in a judgement confers Hindu widows absolute ownership of property under Hindu Succession Act 1956. |
| 04/23/1991 |
Major parties agree to have polls in Punjab. |
| 04/23/1992 |
Satyajit Ray, internationally famous Indian film producer-director, Bharat Ratna Awardee, passed away at the age of 70. |
| 04/23/1994 |
Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait, former Indian Union Muslim League president, floats a new party - the Indian National League. |
| 04/23/2000 |
Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 01/08/1908 | Gandhiji asks the Government for suspension of Registration Act, offers voluntary registration. |
| 07/13/1964 | Utpal Chatterjee, cricketer (Bengal slow left-arm bowler), was born in Calcutta. |
| 06/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 05/04/1832 | Darpan', a fortnightly magazine started publishing as a weekly. |
| 10/22/1796 | Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping from the terrace. |
| 11/15/1997 | INS Delhi' commissioned. |
| 05/12/1998 | Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT. |
| 03/03/1982 | Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died. |
| 05/18/1945 | Bhagwat Subramaniam Chandrasekhar, cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79), was born in Banglore. He received Arjun Award and Padmashree awards in 1972. |
| 06/01/1930 | Baba Adhav was born. |
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