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Historical Event on 3/23/1968

Atul Satish Wassan, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1989-90), was born in Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/25/1990R. V. S. Perishastri, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, passed away.
5/21/1999A powerful bomb explodes and another is defused on the road leading to the Imphal airport minutes before the Prime Minister landed to commence his two-day visit to the State.
5/27/1952United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader.
6/10/1928Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai.
10/26/1950Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras.
12/28/1981Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned.
5/7/1994Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India.
12/25/1943Japanese bombers raid Chittagong.
3/11/1824US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair.
3/3/1885Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt).