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Historical Event on 10/23/1996

Amjad Ali Khan, sarod maestro, appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/11/1958Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship.
1/20/1957First Indian Atomic Reactor ""Apsara"" at Trombay, Mumbai, was dedicated to the nation.
12/31/1996Gold import policy liberalised.
6/4/1997Defence Ministry denies Washington Post's report that India has deployed Prithvi missile on Punjab border with Pakistan.
9/15/1927Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena was born.
2/13/1922The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence.
8/21/1988500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale.
4/17/1923Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India.
1/25/1856Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians.
9/28/1940Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as ""The Chhattisgarh Gandhi"".