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Historical Event on 12/31/1923

Vishnu Dayal Jhunjhunwala, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/14/1979Sanjiva Reddy,President, flagged off the first electric train in Madras.
2/27/1992Narasimha Rao elected Congress (I) President in the party poll held after a gap of 20 years.
5/19/1991About 20 crore voters go to the polls in the first phase of election in 204 constituencies of the 10th Lok Sabha.
12/28/1921Prince of Wales inagurated Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta.
9/8/1993Mandal Commission recommendation of 27\% job reservation for the backward classes brought into effect; 'Creamy' layer excluded.
12/22/1853Saradamoni Devi was born in Jairambati of Hooghly district.
5/9/1995Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine. More than 1,000 houses burnt.
10/30/1977One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers, who were expatriated from Sri Lanka, are shipped to Madras, South India.
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.
1/1/1986This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Peace Year"".