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Historical Event on 12/23/1912
Rash Behari Ghosh and Sachin Sanyal threw a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge II in Delhi. He had come to Delhi on an elephant for the initiation of the new capital. The Viceroy was injured in the bomb blast.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/19/1999 | The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart. |
| 1/30/1996 | Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard. |
| 2/17/1968 | Dr. Kailas Nath Katju, freedom fighter, politician, leader, Governor of Orissa and West Bengal, passed away. |
| 5/18/1973 | A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'. |
| 4/17/1996 | Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains. |
| 3/31/1994 | The Supreme Court orders closure of 11 industrial units around Taj Mahal. |
| 6/18/2000 | K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine. |
| 7/31/1861 | 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam becomes a world record. |
| 6/18/1993 | Advani takes over as party President. |
| 9/30/1989 | INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay. |
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