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Historical Event on 1/23/1972

Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party; 100 die in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/6/1962Peking agrees to talks with India to settle border disputes.
3/26/1977Morarji Desai, the new Prime Minister, forms his Cabinet.
12/4/1888Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born.
11/15/1999The no-confidence motion moved against Om Prakash Chautala by the opposition failed in Haryana.
1/11/1986The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.
9/19/1996India Development Forum pledges $7b. to India.
11/10/1848Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
5/11/1965The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country.
4/24/1996SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct.
4/12/1801William Carey fort was appointed the Professor of Bengali Language in fort at William College, Calcutta.