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Historical Event on 11/23/1919
Sitaram Mahadeo Bapat, teacher and author, was born at Miraj in district Sangli.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/13/1977 | Jasawant Singh, famous physiologist, passed away. |
| 9/10/1920 | Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away. |
| 8/8/1967 | Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha. |
| 7/25/1992 | Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma sworn in as the ninth President of India. He remain in this office from July 25, 1992 to July 25, 1997. |
| 6/4/1926 | Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax. |
| 8/1/1970 | Former Beatle George Harrison led an all-star entourage of rock talent through two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden tonight, in a benefit for Bangladesh refugees. More than 40,000 attended the concerts, and Harrison hoped to donate $250,000 to the cause. The shows opened with sets of Indian music by sitarist Ravi Shankar, then moved through songs featuring Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and another ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr. But the evening's most ecstatic ovations were reserved for the unexpected appearance of Bob Dylan. |
| 12/10/1902 | Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria. |
| 10/22/1913 | Harumal Sadarangani, famous Sindhi writer, was born at Sind, Pakistan. |
| 8/15/1990 | Uttar Maharashtra University was established. |
| 8/8/1955 | Dr. Homi J. Bhabha elected chairman of the international conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. |
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