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Historical Event on 5/23/1923
Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52), was born in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/18/1803 | Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India. |
| 1/25/1994 | Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55. |
| 5/14/1994 | RBI announces tight monetary policy. |
| 3/24/1977 | Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India. |
| 6/23/1971 | Sriprakash, freedom fighter, prolific writer and member of the AICC, passed away. |
| 11/12/1781 | Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops. |
| 12/17/1938 | Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died. |
| 12/28/1995 | Third Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1C), carring advanced remote sensing cameras was launched by Russian Molniya launch vehicle. It is still in service. |
| 3/17/1909 | Pandit Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, educationist and internationally famed Sanskrit scholar, was born at Satara, Maharashtra. |
| 8/14/1996 | Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died. |
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