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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 |
2/23/1997 | 176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa. |
2/15/1967 | Fourth General Election of Lok Sabha begins. |
6/15/1947 | All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi. |
8/2/1922 | Krishnapal Singh, politician and lawyer, was born at Birahuli in Madhya Pradesh. |
1/20/1957 | First Indian Atomic Reactor ""Apsara"" at Trombay, Mumbai, was dedicated to the nation. |
9/11/1991 | Tax concessions announced. |
10/3/1907 | Mansukhlal Maganlal Zaveri, famous Gujrati poet and critic, was born. |
12/29/1972 | Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced. |
11/27/1999 | BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats. |
11/29/1988 | Rajiv 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. |
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