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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
5/23/1895Shivprasad Sitar-E-Hind passed away.
6/21/1906Vyomeshchandra Banerjee, first president of All India Congress, passed away.
3/2/1986Kashinath Ghanekar, famous stage artist, passed away.
7/29/1994Indian army kills 27 Muslem militants.
4/15/1980Six more private sector banks nationalized.
6/12/1972D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died.
3/21/1979The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988).
2/10/1944Japanese troops take the Ngakyedauk Pass, cutting off the 7th Indian Division at Sinzweya, Burma.
2/6/1995India and France decide to set up permanent Secretariat in Paris during the Indo-French Joint Business Council in Delhi.
2/20/1968Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay.