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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 7/23/1903 |
Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903 |
| 7/23/1856 |
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on July 23rd, 1856 |
| 7/23/1856 |
Humayun reconquered Delhi after defeating Sher - Shar Alias Sikandar Suri in Machiwara and Sarhind battles. It is said that he won the crown but not the empire. |
| 7/23/1856 |
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. |
| 7/23/1898 |
Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born. |
| 7/23/1904 |
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains. |
| 7/23/1906 |
Chandrashekhar Azad, great freedom revolutionery and leader, was born at Jhabra, Madhya Pradesh. |
| 7/23/1912 |
Kilachand Ambalal, great industrialist, was born. |
| 7/23/1918 |
Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 7/23/1923 |
Navinchandra Chimanlal Pandya, great educationist, was born at Prantij, Ahmedabad. |
| 7/23/1927 |
Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station. |
| 7/23/1933 |
Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, great leader, lawyer, social worker, freedom fighter, nationalist and president of Bengal Swaraj Party, died at Ranchi. He was addresed by the people of Bengal as 'Deshapriya' (Beloved of the Country). |
| 7/23/1956 |
India celebrates the birth centenary of Bal Gangadhar ""Lokmanya"" Tilak. |
| 7/23/1964 |
Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 7/23/1976 |
Hari Chand at Montreal sets record for 10,000m in 28.48.72. |
| 7/23/1988 |
Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), died. |
| 7/23/1990 |
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow. |
| 7/23/1991 |
Premdatt Paliwal, president of All India Forward Block, died. |
| 7/23/1993 |
Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2B), second satellite in the INSAT-2 series, was launched. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was aunched by European Ariane launch vehicle. |
| 7/23/1996 |
India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta. |
| 7/23/1996 |
R. Bhattacharji was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He is heading this office till date. |
| 7/23/1997 |
India decides to sign U.N. Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. |
| 7/23/2000 |
Ram Jethmalani, Union Law Minister, quits the Cabinet after the Prime Minister shows him the door following the outbursts against the Chief Justice of India, Dr. A. S. Anand. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/18/1974 | Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away. |
| 1/3/1996 | Bomb blast kills six and seriously wounds 20. Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front claim responsibility in Delhi. |
| 11/24/1941 | Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar. |
| 2/1/1994 | ONGC becomes a Public Limited Company. |
| 12/6/1897 | Lekhraj Kishanchand Mirchandani (Aziz), famous Sindhi poet, essay writer and critic, was born. |
| 9/14/1967 | US announces plan to give India $1.3 million to buy contraceptives. |
| 10/24/1934 | Mahatma Gandhi quits Indian Indian National Congress in struggle over tactics. |
| 6/23/1990 | Harindranath Chatopadhyay, famous poet, actor and former member of Parliament, passed away. |
| 12/28/1998 | India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past. |
| 8/9/1902 | King Edward VII was crowned the emperor of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey after the death of his mother Queen Victoria. Earlier, he had held a grand function in which nearly 4,56,000 invitees celebrated this royal feast. |
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