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Historical Event on 12/23/1900

Kalicharan Patnaik, famous Orria dramatist, poet and journalist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/16285th Mughal Emperor Shahjahan was crowned.
11/15/1911First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.
8/3/1900Nana Patil, great revolutionary, was born.
12/10/1918Rowlatt Act introduced by Lord Chelmsford.
5/15/1864Mahavirprasad Dvivedi, famous Hindi litterateur, poet, writer and editor, was born at Daulatpur village in UP.
6/24/1996Nanchil K. Manoharan, former DMK Finance Minister, expelled from the party.
2/2/1967US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India.
10/2/1994Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary.
3/17/1999An international seminar on UN Peacekeeping was co-jointly hosted by Ministry of External affairs and Ministry of Defence at New Delhi from 17 to 19 March 1999. The seminar was conducted by HQ Army Training Command, Shimla on behalf of the Indian Army. A total of 126 foreign delegates from 71 countries participated in the seminar.
4/10/1995Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, first non-Congress Prime Minister of India (1977-79) and Chief Minister of Bombay, passed away at the age of 99. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna.