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Historical Event on 6/23/1895
Kali Charan Ghosh, great Hindi writer, was born at Calcutta.
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| 2/19/1992 | The ruling Congress party wins local elections boycotted by Sikhs in Punjab. |
| 1/9/1841 | John Gil Christ, founder of Fort William College Calcutta, passed away at Paris. |
| 11/21/1963 | First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme. |
| 9/29/1836 | Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in Madras |
| 10/2/1910 | Frank C. Brown, educationist and social worker, was born. |
| 12/16/1922 | Parvati Devi, orator, was arrested for delivering revolutionary speeches in meetings at Hapud and Merrut. She was the first Indian women to get two years long imprisionment during the freedom struggle. |
| 9/30/1996 | Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai. |
| 1/19/1905 | Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali writer and thinker, passed away. |
| 1/31/1969 | Saint Meherbaba passed away. |
| 5/17/1974 | Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
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