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Historical Event on 7/23/1996
India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/20/1994 | Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta. |
| 4/8/1674 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj honoured Hansaji Mohite with the degree of 'Hambirrao' and appointed him as Chief General of his Army. |
| 10/9/1877 | Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, great freedom fighter, social reformer, educationist, poet, author, lawyer of modern Orrisa, was born in Puri District, Orissa. |
| 10/3/1991 | Ganpatrao Tapase, former Governor of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, died. |
| 11/5/1956 | Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary. |
| 12/12/1964 | HJT-16, the first Indian jet trainer, made its inaugural flight. |
| 5/24/1956 | Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated. |
| 6/12/1970 | Gopinath Kaviraj, Padmavibhushan awardee and critic, passed away. |
| 11/11/2000 | Mohun Bagan wins the Durand Cup in New Delhi. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
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