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Historical Event on 9/23/1965

The Indian Army secured the Kashmir Valley and the only object left was to clean out the remnants of the Gibraltar Force. Under the guidance of United Nations, the cease-fire came into effect.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/26/1930Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay.
2/1/1901Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded.
6/5/1981Gopal Saini at Tokyo sets record for 3000m ST. in 8,30.88.
1/5/1982C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous music director, died.
5/19/1993Government decides to merge Vayudut with Indian Airlines.
8/6/1999Kalpnath Rai (58), former Union Minister, died in New Delhi.
10/12/1911Vijay Madhavji Merchant Thackersey, cricketer (all-time great Indian batsman), was born in Bombay.
6/17/1913Waman Vasudev Chitle (Bal Chitle), Marathi story writer and editor, was born.
1/1/1988On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking.
12/1/1998Dhian Singh (103), freedom fighter dies at Palampur, Himachal Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian National Army and was jailed a number of times during the freedom movement.