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Historical Event on 10/23/1959
Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/15/1919 | Arjan Singh, Air Chief Marshal and Padma Vibhushan, DFC, was born in Lyalpur. |
| 2/24/1957 | General Election ( 2nd) of India begins. |
| 11/11/1921 | Gandhi urges Hindus to remove statue of ex-Viceroy Lord Lawrence. |
| 7/21/1906 | W.C. Bonerjee, first President of Indian National Congress, passed away. |
| 1/24/2000 | Supreme Court imposes, with immediate effect, a ban on industries in Delhi and Haryana from discharging untreated industrial effluents into the Yamuna. |
| 2/9/1931 | A set of six stamps were issued during the inauguration of New Delhi. |
| 7/16/1996 | The four basin states of Narmada valley - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra - reach agreement to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat to 436' after which hydrological studies will be done for 5 years to decide whether the height should be raised to the awarded 455'. |
| 1/15/1919 | Ahmed Mohammad Mamsa, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1963-73, was born at Mumbai. |
| 2/9/1984 | Balasarasvati, eminent classical Karnatic singer and Bharat Natyam dancer of worldwide acclaim, passed away in Madras. |
| 3/6/1915 | Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan. |
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