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Historical Event on 12/23/2000
The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government's proposal to rename Calcutta as ''Kolkata''.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/10/1832 | Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India), was born. |
| 12/4/1910 | Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born. |
| 7/31/1952 | Bela Mitra, commander of ""Nari Vahini"" and activist of ""Azad Hind Fauj"", passed away. She also worked as partition refugee. |
| 3/24/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India. |
| 5/30/1826 | The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla. |
| 5/30/1826 | Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni passed away in his capital. |
| 9/21/1895 | Annapurnanand, great writer, was born. |
| 1/5/1994 | Jnanpith Award was given to U. R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada). |
| 1/18/1999 | The office of the Board of Control for Cricket in India is ransacked allegedly by Shiv Sainiks protesting agains Pakistan team's tour of India. Shiv Sena denies hand in attack. |
| 6/6/1909 | Morappakam Joysam Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test India v England 1933-34), was born in Maduranthakam, Madras. |
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