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Historical Event on 2/23/1993

Jnanpith Award was given to Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya).

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1989New Governors were appointed in five states. Gen. K. V. Krishna Rao became Governor for J&K.
1/14/1990J&K Governor quits.
8/16/1991Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.
3/22/1793Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year.
6/19/1990NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan.
6/17/1993Congress (I) working committee reaffirms its faith in Rao; BJP asks for PM's resignation .
8/15/1947The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.
8/5/1939In the first case to be brought under Prohibition laws, a railroad passenger was today convicted of possessing a bottle of brandy in Bombay.
8/4/1997Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.
4/3/1984Sikh terrorists kill a member of Parliament in his home in New Delhi.