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Historical Event on 12/23/1976
Indira Gandhi attacks the pro-Moscow Communist party for enticing her son Sanjay, but she denies grooming him as her successor.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/5/1927 | Sarjit Singh Bal, educationist, was born in Renala Khurd, Punjab. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
| 4/22/1983 | Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85. |
| 4/26/1995 | Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne. |
| 10/2/1994 | Five die of pneumonic plague in Delhi. Surat toll rose to 47. |
| 12/17/1996 | Virendrakumar Jain, famous writer, died in Mumbai. |
| 7/20/1654 | Portugal was taken over by Britishers. |
| 4/8/1857 | Mangal Pandey, the first revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, was hanged till death at Barrackpore. He struck the first bullet during the time of mutiny against the British Empire. |
| 12/29/1968 | Chunilal Kalidas Madiya, famous Gujrathi playwright, story writer and novelist, died. |
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