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Historical Event on 8/23/2000

India, Japan unveil new global partnership and agree to start a formal security dialogue. Sanctions status quo on CTBT.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/31/1997Lakhubhai Pathak, prominent NRI businessman who had accused Narasimha Rao of cheating $ 100,000, died in London.
10/17/1990S. Bangarappa sworn in as CM of Karnataka following revocation of President's rule.
12/23/1900Charansingh Chaudhary, former Prime Minister of India and a farmer's leader, was born.
3/9/199314 bus passengers burnt to death in Andhra .
3/11/1915Vijay Samuel Hazare, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54), was born in Sangli, Maharashtra.
5/5/1986Controversial Muslim Women Bill passed by Lok Sabha.
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
1/14/1998Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College.
6/1/1819William Carey, Ward and Marshman established the Serampore College in Bengal.