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Historical Event on 2/23/1962

The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/10/1999Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final.
9/25/1999Eighth SAF Games inaugurated in Kathmandu.
10/16/1922M.V. Desai, social reformer and journalist, was born.
2/6/195555 miners die in explosion in Bihar State.
2/2/1862Pandit Shambhunath was the first Indian to become Judge of Indian High Court.
10/11/1894Sudhirranjan Das, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.
4/17/1952First Lok Sabha was formed. Ananthasaynam Ayyangar, was elected as the first Deputy speaker of Lok Sabha (1952).
12/22/1866Mazharul Haque, great social reformer, nationalist, journalist, poet, writer and politician, was born at Bahpura, Bihar.
2/16/1927Rail service started between India and Nepal.
6/11/1976Indira Gandhi and Brezhnev sign the Moscow Declaration of Friendship and Cooperation.