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Historical Event on 11/23/1897
Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, writer, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1846 | British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 7/17/1987 | V. P. Singh announces resignation from Congress; R. Venkataraman elected President of India. |
| 2/3/1954 | More than 500 pilgrims died in an accident on the river bank at the ""Kumbha Mela"" in Allahabad. |
| 10/31/1989 | Dr. A. P. Mukherjee became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation till 11/01/90. |
| 11/21/1969 | Bhilai Steel Plant creates a new world record in steel-making by producing 'one heat' in four hours three minutes. |
| 11/1/1985 | Helicopter Corporation of India, later renamed Pawan Hans Limited, started functioning. |
| 9/16/1913 | Kasturba Gandhi was arrested. |
| 5/28/1903 | Shantanu L. Kirloskar, great industrialist, was born at Sholapur (Maharashtra). |
| 11/2/1976 | Lok Sabha passes the 42nd Constitution Amendment Bill making India a Socialist Secular Republic and laying down the fundamental duties of citizens. |
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