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Historical Event on 9/23/1967
P. S. Vaidya, great Indian ODI pace bowler (1995-96), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/11/1913 | Iron ropes bridge known as 'Laxman Jhula' was constructed over Ganga at Hrishikesh |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 4/11/1930 | Pandit Motilal Nehru renamed 'Anand Bhuvan' as 'Swaraj Bhawan' and handed it over to the people. |
| 5/6/1948 | India rejected the Security Council's plan for UN supervision over plebiscite in Kashmir. |
| 4/16/1963 | Gopal Singh Nepali, famous poet, passed away. |
| 11/14/1997 | N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 9/8/1933 | Asha Bhosle (born Asha Mangeshkar), famous playback singer, was born in Sangli, Maharashtra. |
| 2/23/1768 | Nizam accepted British supremacy and Smith Col. signed peace treaty with the Nizam. |
| 10/15/1866 | Vasudevacharya Kerur, famous Kannad novelist, playwright and journalist, was born. |
| 9/20/1886 | Kuladhor Chaliha, one of the pioneer Congress leaders of Assam, was born at Sibsagar. |
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