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Historical Event on 4/23/1938

Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/26/1983Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat.
6/11/1996Narasimha Rao's name figures in fresh FIR on bribing JMM MPs case.
8/10/1993Narayan Keshav Upasni, famous educationist, passed away.
6/20/1993Harshad Mehta's senior counsel Ram Jethmalani asks JPC to summon the PM and allow cross-examination.
8/19/1993Sharad Pawar elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council from Pune.
7/3/199625 to 30\% hike in prices of petroleum products.
11/23/1994100 killed in a stampede of Govari Samaj people during a protest march towards Nagpur Assembly.
12/4/1796Bajirao became the second Peshwa.
11/21/1963First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme.
1/10/1996All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films.