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Historical Event on 8/23/1986

B. G. Deshmukh was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27th March, 1989.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/28/1911Mutyalswami Muniswami Naidu, cricket Test umpire, one test in 1951-52, was born at Vadodara, Gujarat.
2/5/1968Narottam Nagar, veteran hindi writer, passed away.
4/12/1967U. Thant,UN Secretary General, receives the first Nehru Award for international understanding.
2/15/1997Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi.
7/5/1996Janata Dal expels dissident Maneka Gandhi from primary membership of the party.
7/1/1961Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal.
11/18/1997School bus plunges into the Yamuna killing 28 Delhi children.
9/20/1940Saroj Lalwani, journalist and printing press director, was born.
8/28/1973India and Pakistan signed P.O.W Accord paving way for release of 90,000 Pakistanis.
6/27/1997Surendra Pratap Singh, famous Journalist and former chief editor of Nav Bharat Times Group, died ]at Delhi.