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Historical Event on 5/23/1990

Banarasi Das Gupta elected CM of Haryana following Om Prakash Chautala's resignation.

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2/19/1995National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established.
2/20/1947British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India.
1/31/1995ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997).
6/16/1893Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu.
6/12/1960783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi.
1/29/1781First Newspaper, J.A.Hickey's Bengal Gazette - January 29, 1781.
9/10/1911Jatin Chakravorty, social reformer, politician and trade unionist, was born at Comilla, Bangladesh.
9/23/1974First NCC Airforce Squadran (Women) was established at Vanasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan.
10/16/1945Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) established.
10/23/1898Khandubhai K. Desai, politician and social reformer, was born at Bulsar in Gujarat.