23 TODAY IN HISTORY DINVISHESH GHADAMODI
Today in Indian History Events for December 23
23-December-1845Rasbhihari Ghosh, famous patriot and law expert, was born.
23-December-1889Mehr Chand Mahajan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
23-December-1900Charansingh Chaudhary, former Prime Minister of India and a farmer's leader, was born.
23-December-1900Kalicharan Patnaik, famous Orria dramatist, poet and journalist, was born.
23-December-1902Chaudhary Charan Singh was born at Noopur village in Hapur Tehsil near Meerut. He was a freedom fighter and had done many deeds for upliftment of Agriculture in India. He was the Prime Minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980.
23-December-1912Rash Behari Ghosh and Sachin Sanyal threw a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge II in Delhi. He had come to Delhi on an elephant for the initiation of the new capital. The Viceroy was injured in the bomb blast.
23-December-1913Gondhavalekar Maharaj, famous saint, died.
23-December-1919King's proclamation was made that the new reforms of Government of India offer some sort of self government.
23-December-1920King George V signs Home Rule Act.
23-December-1926Swami Shradhanand, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker and politician, was assassinated by a revolver shot that was fired by a young Muslim Abdul Rashid.
23-December-1930The British governor of Punjab was wounded in an assassination attempt.
23-December-1944U C Joshi, cricketer (Sussex off-spinner 1970-74 from India), was born.
23-December-1954Judge Bijan Kumar Mukherjea became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 31/01/1956.
23-December-1954Tito, Nehru reject plan for neutral third bloc, yet insist on peaceful co-existence.
23-December-1959Edward Fredrick Lindlewood Halifax ""Irwin Lord"", English viscount and Governor General of India (1925-1931), died at the age of
23-December-1964India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed.
23-December-1969Armstrong and Aldrin collected Moon rock, which was kept on exhibition in New Delhi.
23-December-1972Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi.
23-December-1976Indira Gandhi attacks the pro-Moscow Communist party for enticing her son Sanjay, but she denies grooming him as her successor.
23-December-1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.
23-December-1983Micheal Chopra, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Newcastle, England.
23-December-1989V. C. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 11-12-1990.
23-December-1990All India BMAC and VHP hand over the historical and archaeological documents to support their claim to Home Ministry officials.
23-December-1992Varma Commission indicts IB, the Centre and Tamil Nadu police for failure to protect Rajiv Gandhi.
23-December-1993PM announces Local Area Development Scheme by which each MP can sanction projects worth Rs.1 crore.
23-December-1995400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana.
23-December-1995The crew of the seized aircraft in Bombay confess dropping of arms at Purulia.
23-December-1998Jayaprakash Narayan posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna, the country's biggest honour.
23-December-2000The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government's proposal to rename Calcutta as ''Kolkata''.