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Historical Event on 7/23/1956
India celebrates the birth centenary of Bal Gangadhar ""Lokmanya"" Tilak.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 1/9/1972 | In 1971, 433 feature films produced in the world with a record and a top position in film production. |
| 3/24/1991 | Bhau Samarth, internationaly famed painter, passed away. |
| 5/25/1941 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. |
| 3/15/1992 | Dr. Rahi Masum Raza, film screenplay, story and dialogue writer, passed away at the age of 64 years. |
| 1/19/1951 | Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkarbappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, passed away. |
| 7/12/1947 | Pochiah Krishnamurthy, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1971 WI tour), was born in Hyderabad. |
| 1/22/1886 | Harikrishna Premi, Hindi writer, passed away. |
| 1/10/1987 | Sikh terrorists murder Punjab prison chief in Chandigarh. |
| 2/17/1976 | New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India. |
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