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Historical Event on 5/23/1995

TADA expires and new Anti-Terrorists Activities Law proposed. Criminal Law Amendment Bill, 1995, voting put off; Lok Sabha passes Finance Bill 1995.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/5/1994Jnanpith Award for Oriya Poet Sitakant Mahapatra.
5/14/1956Govt announces that decimal coinage will be introduced in India from April 1, 1957.
6/26/1975Chaudhary Charan Singh, freedom fighter and Chief Minister of UP, arrested by British Government.
8/18/1911Adityanath Jha, former Governor of Delhi, was born.
3/28/1997India and Pakistan, represented by Salman Haider and Shamshad Ahmed, Foreign Secretaries, hold official talks on issues at New Delhi.
9/21/1962Major General I. J. Rikhye completed the task in accordance with the memorandum to UNSF, thus fulfilling the mandate of cessation of hostilities without any incident.
11/15/1992At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
5/19/1908Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born.
4/13/1796The first elephant was brought to America from Bengal, India.
5/3/1977Hamid Dalwai, father of Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal in Maharashtra, passed away.