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Historical Event on 3/23/1947

Lord Mountbatten was sent as a Viceroy to India who was designated to free India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/14/199710th International Film Festival for children and young people ambles into Hyderabad atop Gajju, the delightful elephant mascot. About 125 films from 30 countries will be screened.
3/7/1956A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India.
9/2/1960Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away.
1/2/1994Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections.
6/2/1997Saudi Boeing 747 Jumbo with 348 people on board misses the Meenambakkam international airport, Chennai and forcelands at Tambaram Air Force strip.
7/21/1995Sajjad Husain, famous film music director, passed away.
9/13/1893Mama Parmanand, one of the founders of 'Prarthana Samaj', passed away.
4/6/1998The Sonia Gandhi era begins in the Congress(I) with a special AICC session ratifying the decision of the CWC appointing her president in place of Sitaram Kesri.
12/21/1999The Gujarat Government asks the Hindu Jagran March to go-ahead with the 'Shilanyas' for a Ram temple at Halmodi in Surat district.
6/23/1985Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died.