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Historical Event on 5/23/1947
The U.K. Cabinet today took the historic step of agreeing to Lord Mountbatten's proposal for the partition of India into two states, one Muslim and the other Hindu. The Viceroy is to have a series of talks with Lord Listowel, the Secretary for India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1922 | Madhu Limaye, great politician, freedom fighter, writer and national leader, was born at Pune, Maharashtra. |
| 6/19/2000 | Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana. |
| 6/19/1931 | Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa. |
| 11/7/1971 | India admits forces entered Bangladesh to silence artillery. |
| 10/1/1894 | Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Calcutta. |
| 1/16/1681 | Sambhaji was crowned as the successor of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in a function held at Raigad Fort. |
| 7/8/1991 | 25 tonnes of gold moved to London from India to raise $ 200 million loan. |
| 3/28/1995 | Haridev Joshi, former Chief Minister of Rajasthan and former Governor of Assam Meghalay, passed away. |
| 3/29/1914 | Sudhir Gupta, famous Hindi poet and educationist, was born in Kalasgram, Bangladesh. |
| 7/1/1992 | Truck operators begin nation-wide strike to press for the abolition of toll tax and octroi. |
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