23 April Today in Indian History
Events for April 23
23-April-1504 | Guru Angad, Sikh Guru, was born. |
23-April-1751 | Gilbert Aliat Minto, governor-general of East India Company, was born. |
23-April-1774 | British Commander Colonel Chapman defeated Rohilla's army and captured Ruhelkhand. |
23-April-1795 | East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges. |
23-April-1858 | Pandita Ramabai, the social reformer and philosopher, was born in the State of Mysore. |
23-April-1913 | Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biographer, was born. |
23-April-1926 | Madhavrao Sapre, the great political leader, passed away. |
23-April-1928 | Narasimha Murtey, the educationist, was born at Nandur, A.P. |
23-April-1929 | Ranjit Film Co. was founded by Chandulal Shah and Gohar at Bombay. |
23-April-1929 | The Fate of the Outlaw', a 7-reel film produced by Majestic Film Co. was prohibited by the Board of Censors, Bombay, on April 23 on the grounds that the film glorifieds crime. |
23-April-1930 | Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers. |
23-April-1938 | Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand. |
23-April-1946 | Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, exchanging its Spitfire Vllls for Mk XlVs in October and arriving in Japan aboard HMS vengence. |
23-April-1955 | Political Committee of Asian-African Conference at Bandung adopted an Indian resolution calling for a ban on atomic weapons. |
23-April-1959 | Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma. |
23-April-1968 | Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away. |
23-April-1987 | Supreme Court in a judgement confers Hindu widows absolute ownership of property under Hindu Succession Act 1956. |
23-April-1991 | Major parties agree to have polls in Punjab. |
23-April-1992 | Satyajit Ray, internationally famous Indian film producer-director, Bharat Ratna Awardee, passed away at the age of 70. |
23-April-1994 | Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait, former the Indian Union Muslim League president, floats a new party - the Indian National League. |
23-April-2000 | Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy. |
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