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Historical Event on 12/23/1977

Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/20/1989R. S. Pathak, Chief Justice of India, elected to the World Court.
3/25/1911L. D. Swamikannu publishes ""Manual of Indian Chronology"" in Bombay.
7/13/1999Militants attack the residential complex of Border Security Force (BSF) in Madar village near Bandipur and take 12 persons as hostages after killing four.
3/15/1998Mr. Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. The number of MPs supporting the formation of a government by the BJP stands at 264 in a house of 539, just short of the working majority of 270. However, the President sees the figure as crossing the half-way mark as the Telugu Desam decides to remain neutral. Earlier, the Congress(I) conveys to the President its decision not to stake claim to form a government.
10/30/1966First meeting of the Shiv Sena at Shivaji Park.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
9/26/1985P.T. Usha sets record for 100m (Women) in 11.39 seconds at Jakarta.
6/30/1968Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous journalist and litterateur, passed away.
10/5/1990Dr. Rajkumar Varma, famous Hindi journalist and playwright, died.
3/25/1898Dalpatrai (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Trawadi), modern Gujrati poet, passed away.