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Historical Event on 3/23/1910

Dr. Ram Manohar Hiralal Lohia also known as ""Dauntless Dr. Lohia"", freedom fighter and socialist leader, was born at Akbarpur, district Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. He had founded Praja Socialist Party in 1952.

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1/29/1780Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
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2/2/1965Government sanction was accorded to the Officers Training School for the start of Short Service Regular Commission.
7/8/1954Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated world's longest Bhakra-Nangal Dam canal at Punjab.
11/18/1948Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna.
8/1/1939Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed.
8/1/1939Mahmud Gawan was appointed as Prime Minister, an office which he held till his execution.
10/11/1999Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely.
12/24/1999Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad.
7/16/1996The four basin states of Narmada valley - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra - reach agreement to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat to 436' after which hydrological studies will be done for 5 years to decide whether the height should be raised to the awarded 455'.