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Historical Event on 7/23/1964
Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/29/1993 | 24 jawans were killed in ambush by NSCN militants in Manipur. |
| 2/14/1990 | An Indian Airlines Airbus crashes at Bangalore killing 92 people. |
| 11/29/1989 | Rajiv Gandhi resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India. |
| 12/11/1967 | 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed. |
| 5/22/1953 | Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World). |
| 11/2/1908 | 50 years after the start of direct rule, Edward VII talks of 'prudently extending' democracy. |
| 2/27/1803 | Great fire in Bombay. |
| 2/2/1996 | Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair. |
| 12/9/1946 | The first meeting of Constitutional Committee Assembly was held in Parliment after a gap of two years, 11 months and 17 days. The Congress started its work of framing the Indian Constitution. Muslim League boycott failed to prevent Constituent Assembly opening. From 16th August 1946, the country witnessed communal riots on an unprecedented scale. At this crucial juncture, on 20th February 1947, Clement Atlee the British prime minister, fixed June 1948 as a deadline for transfer of power and Lord Mountbatten was appointed as the new Viceroy. |
| 4/9/1893 | Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, politician, professor and Hindi writer, was born at Pandaha, Azamgarh. |
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