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Historical Event on 7/23/1964

Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/27/1995K.V. Krishna Rao, J&K Governor, gets another term.
9/6/1905Satyacharan Chaterjee, great Indian Geologist, was born.
3/23/1947Lord Mountbatten was sent as a Viceroy to India who was designated to free India.
8/17/1998National Human Rights Commission recommends compulsory registration of marriages in a bid to check child marriages.
3/30/1999Services regained team title in the national boxing championship in Visakhapatnam.
3/5/1992Sunder, comedy actor, passed away.
11/30/1990Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas takes over as Chief of Naval Staff.
10/6/1999Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes.
11/29/1988Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support.
7/28/1999Shiv Sena president Bal Thackeray is banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years from December 11, 1995 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.