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Historical Event on 8/23/1958
Marathwada University was started.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/17/1927 | A.N. Radhakrishnan, great educationist, was born. |
| 3/10/2000 | Nirmal Verma, distinguished Hindi writer, and eminent Punjabi novelist Gurchal Singh selected jointly for the 35th Jnanpith Award for 1999. |
| 5/18/1974 | First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb. |
| 5/13/1996 | Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party. |
| 11/20/1990 | Union Government asks Supreme Court to repeal the $470 million Bhopal Gas settlement order. |
| 12/25/1846 | Swati Tirunal Ramavarma passed away. |
| 11/2/1889 | Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, social worker, was born at Chiniot in Jhang district, Punjab. |
| 4/18/1612 | Khurram prince was married to Arjumand Banu Begum. |
| 4/21/1992 | RBI eases credit policy, lending rates reduced from 6 to 4; 13\% interest ceiling on deposits. |
| 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 |
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