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Historical Event on 9/23/1996
Sitaram Kesri elected provisional president of Congress (I).
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/26/1996 | 47th Republic Day celebrated;Chief Guest was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil. |
4/23/1955 | Political Committee of Asian-African Conference at Bandung adopted an Indian resolution calling for a ban on atomic weapons. |
6/25/1922 | Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
10/1/1997 | Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. |
11/16/1991 | 60 percent of the 23 million voters exercise their franchise in the by-elections to 15 Lok Sahba and 56 Assembly seats in 14 states. |
1/28/1846 | British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal. |
1/12/1949 | Tej Bahadur Saproo, liberal leader, passed away. He was a strong believer in constitution and not in revolutions. |
4/14/1991 | NF promises 5-10\% jobs to economically backward sections among the upper castes. |
6/24/1928 | Mrinal Keshav Gore, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
1/5/1948 | Parthasarathy Harishchandra Sharma, cricketer (Indian batsman of the mid-70's), was born in Alwar, Rajasthan. |
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