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Historical Event on 9/23/1997

India win Sahara Cup Cricket series by 4-1 victory over Pakistan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/23/1997176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa.
2/15/1967Fourth General Election of Lok Sabha begins.
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
8/2/1922Krishnapal Singh, politician and lawyer, was born at Birahuli in Madhya Pradesh.
1/20/1957First Indian Atomic Reactor ""Apsara"" at Trombay, Mumbai, was dedicated to the nation.
9/11/1991Tax concessions announced.
10/3/1907Mansukhlal Maganlal Zaveri, famous Gujrati poet and critic, was born.
12/29/1972Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced.
11/27/1999BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats.
11/29/1988Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support.