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Historical Event on 8/23/1872
Tanguturi Prakasam, great lawyer, journalist, nationalist, politician, leader, social reformer and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, was born at Kanuparthi village in Ongole district in Andhra Pradesh.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/1/1997 | Over 23,000 blowdowns completed in 1.2 m tunnel. |
4/24/1980 | Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief. |
4/23/1929 | The Fate of the Outlaw', a 7-reel film produced by Majestic Film Co. was prohibited by the Board of Censors, Bombay, on April 23 on the grounds that the film glorifieds crime. |
1/19/1976 | C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died. |
12/11/1908 | New law suspends trial by jury and increases penalties for 'sedition.' |
4/2/1926 | The worst Hindu-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta. |
11/14/1889 | Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India, was born. To commemorate his birthday, this day is observed as 'Children's Day' from 1957. |
2/1/1835 | East India company obtained Darjeeling from the King of Sikkim. |
7/11/1953 | Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu was born in Mumbai (Mahatrahtra). |
5/11/1998 | Three momentous events took place on the day that did the nation proud. Firstly, three underground nuclear tests at Pokhran Range in Rajasthan, which included a hydrogen bomb, were tested; secondly, the successful test firing of the 'Trishul Missile' and thirdly, the maiden Certification test flight of 'Hansa-3', the first-all Composite indigenous two seater aircraft. |
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