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Historical Event on 2/23/1996
North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/10/1955 | Prakash Padukone, internationally famous Badminton player, was born. |
| 5/30/1919 | Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. |
| 4/3/1998 | Pramod Mahajan, senior BJP functionary, is appointed Political Advisor to Prime Minister ""in the rank and status of Cabinet Minister in the PMO"". |
| 5/11/1965 | The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country. |
| 6/30/1930 | George Fernandes, worker's leader and politician, was born. |
| 12/31/1996 | Gold import policy liberalised. |
| 10/19/1967 | Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light. |
| 5/25/1965 | Independent India had further clashes with Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, one over the intractable Kashmir dispute and the other over Bangladesh. A border war was also fought with China in 1962 in the North-Eastern region, which resulted in the loss of Aksai Chin in Ladakh and smaller areas in the North-east. India continues to dispute sovereignty over these areas. |
| 12/4/1977 | Ajit Agarkar, promising Indian ODI all-rounder, was born. |
| 1/1/1995 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Tolerance"". |
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