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Historical Event on 1/23/1993

British PM John Major arrives in India on an official visit.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/6/1996Benazir Bhutto,Pakistan PM, gives green signal for opening up trade with India.
11/11/1913Gandhi sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at South Africa.
5/15/2000Ghulam Hassan Bhat, Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Power, dies in a powerful IED explosion near Mandipore in Anantnag.
12/3/19843,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.
3/24/1991Bhau Samarth, internationaly famed painter, passed away.
3/31/1992Delhi beat Tamil Nadu in 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy.
8/11/1911Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born.
11/1/1973Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were renamed as Lakshadweep, and Masker (Mysore) state renamed as Karnataka.
2/6/1950N. R. Pillai was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 13-05-1953.
12/20/1904Virendranarayan Chakravorthy, former Indian Ambassador in England and Governor of Haryana, was born.