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Historical Event on 7/23/1956

India celebrates the birth centenary of Bal Gangadhar ""Lokmanya"" Tilak.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/25/1999An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.
2/20/1987Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh becomes the 23rd and 24th states of Indian Union.
1/14/1999At least 51 persons are killed and several injured in a stampede at a hilltop at Pampa on the foothills of Sabarimala in Kerala.
5/12/1923Meera Mukherjee, great artist, was born.
4/19/1993Sanjay Dutt, film star, was held under TADA for possessing an AK-56 rifle.
12/14/2000The Government declares the 10-day old postal strike illegal as per the provisions of the Industrial Dispute Act.
2/7/1864P. S. S. Iyyer, famous lawyer and educationalist, was born.
1/26/1876Railway route started between Mumbai and Calcutta.
4/20/1989President's rule imposed in Karnataka.
6/10/1959Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, social worker, died near Hardwar.