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Historical Event on 3/23/1911

Indranath Bandopadhyay, Bengali comedy writer and journalist, passed away.

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5/17/1999Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it.
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4/26/1926Karachi Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1943).
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1/22/1989Madhya Pradesh CM Arjun Singh resigns on Churhat lottery case grounds.
11/10/1938Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul.