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Historical Event on 2/23/1993
Noted Hindi poet Naresh Mehta wins Gyanpith Award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/18/1634 | Joannes Camphuys, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1684-91), was born. |
| 6/16/1946 | Cabinet Mission negotiations were discontinued. Viceroy proposed Interim Government. |
| 9/27/1908 | Shiv Verma, great soldier, was born. |
| 10/12/1921 | Jayant Shridhar Tilak, great journalist, was born at Poona. |
| 3/15/1904 | Annada Shankar Rai, modern Oria and Bengali poet, was born. |
| 12/10/1997 | Salman Haidar appointed India's High Commissioner to Britain. He succeeded M. L. Singhvi. |
| 5/22/1970 | Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'. |
| 12/11/1996 | T. N. Seshan retires. M. S. Gill becomes the new election Chief Election Commissioner. |
| 12/6/1997 | Nine persons killed and over 60 injured in bomb blasts in three trains which left Chennai. Blasts occurred in Tiruchi, Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Trissur in Kerala. |
| 4/21/1997 | Inder Kumar Gujaral sworn as the 12th Prime Minister of India, along with old council of ministers in the H. D. Deve Gowda govt. minus Tamil Maanila Congress Minister and D. P. Yadav of Janata Dal. |
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