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Historical Event on 4/23/1774
British Commander Colonel Chapman defeated Rohilla's army and captured Ruhelkhand.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/19/1993 | Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya. |
| 6/9/1986 | First AIDS death reported from a private hospital in Mumbai. |
| 5/31/1921 | Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born. |
| 3/19/1998 | E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran communist leader of CPM and Kerala's first Chief Minister, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 88. |
| 3/19/1998 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 1/1/1892 | Mahadev Haribhai Desai, follower of Gandhiji, was born in Surat district. |
| 2/16/1931 | Viceroy Lord Irwin meets Mahatma Gandhi for the first time. |
| 8/25/1997 | Neelam J. Singh rewrites her own discussion mark in the domestic circuit meet in Chennai. |
| 12/4/1959 | Power Project was signed betwen India and Nepal, an agreement on the Gandak Irrigation. |
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