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Historical Event on 4/23/1795

East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/14/1995Ban on VHP re-imposed.
5/14/1978Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away.
8/7/1888Navalram (Navalram Laxmiram Pandya), literature critic and versatile Gujarati author, died.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
2/8/1986Sister Alphonsa was beatified by his Holiness Pope John-ll at Kottayam. She was the first woman from India to be raised to this honour. (19-7-96).
2/13/1999The 5th National Games were inaugurated by President K.R. Narayanan in Imphal.
4/27/1907Fearing uprising in Punjab, British arm volunteers.
5/19/1908Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born.
12/25/1997India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance.
12/5/1657Murad proclaimed himself Emperor of India.