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Historical Event on 6/23/1975

Prannath Thapar, former Chief of Army, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/19/1995In an unprecedented move, UP Speaker Dhani Ram Verma adjourns the two-day special session called to prove Mayavati Government's majority in the House. Later, the House gathers, rejects the sine die adjournment and unanimously elects B.R. Verma (BSP) as new presiding officer to conduct the business of the House.
7/8/1907Elphinstone Picture Palace was started by Jamshedji F. Madan at Calcutta.
1/21/1997Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta.
6/23/1984An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
3/25/1928S. R. Kulkarni, leader of dock workers, was born.
9/13/1984Swami Brahmanand died. He established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960). He joined the freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement.
4/11/1942All-India Congress party rejects British offer of dominion status at New Delhi.
2/2/1993Prices of iron and steel hiked.
5/19/1954The Govt. of India constituted a National Film Board.