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Historical Event on 6/23/1980

Sanjay Gandhi, great Indian politician and younger son of Indira Gandhi, died in a plane crash. He was recently appointed as the General Secretary of the AICC (I).

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/26/1994Government rejects JPC report on securities scandal.
8/30/1751Sir Robert Clive exhibited a heroic feat when the British troops captured Arcot form Chanda Saheb.
3/21/1995A.K. Antony elected CM of Kerala.
9/15/1997Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control.
4/18/1991Kerala declared the first fully literate state in the country.
6/11/1946Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre.
9/27/1958Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais.
1/16/1620Amarsingh I, Rajput's guhilot lineage king of Mewad, died.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
2/5/1924Gandhiji was released after operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Poona.