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Historical Event on 8/23/1942
Gorabai Katiya, freedom fighter, was shot by police while participating in a procession for freedom movement in Narsihapur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/29/1997 | Olympic Hockey captain Pargat Singh announces retirement. |
| 3/22/1885 | Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born. |
| 9/26/1904 | R. V. Jagirdar, famous Kannad play writer, was born. |
| 1/16/1996 | Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership. |
| 4/24/1998 | India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah, beating Australia by six wickets in the final. |
| 10/6/1913 | V. R. Kant, famous poet, was born. |
| 1/21/1945 | Shri Rashbehari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, passed away at Tokyo, Japan, at the age of 60. |
| 2/16/1911 | Bhalchandra Gopal Bapat, newspaper editor and educationalist, was born. |
| 2/27/1996 | Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit. |
| 7/29/1901 | Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War. |
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