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Historical Event on 2/23/1993

Noted Hindi poet Naresh Mehta wins Gyanpith Award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/30/1996Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.
1/11/1960Pakistan and India agree on disputed boundary between Punjab and W. at Pakistan.
10/17/1999Indian men bagged bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang.
8/10/1927Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, first Indian astronomer, litterateur and Urdu poet, was born at Madras.
9/2/1960Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away.
7/25/1938Gautam Kalicharan, famous Hindi poet, was born.
4/21/1955Avadi session of the Indian National Congress adopts a socialistic pattern of society for India.
3/29/1849Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar.
5/7/1985Adoor Gopalakrishnan adjudged Best Director (Mukhamukham) in national film awards.
4/5/1922Pandita Ramabai, social worker and philosophist, passed away.