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Historical Event on 10/23/1985

Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/12/1970Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
8/13/1947Riots sweep Lahore in Punjab; mobs stone Gandhi's house.
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
4/28/1986Malayalam film `Chidambaram' directed by G. Aravindan wins best feature film award and Shyam Benegal bags the Best Director award for the Hindi film 'Trikal'.
2/14/1755Raghuji Bhosle, great fighter of Bhosle gharana in Nagpur, passed away.
7/17/1947Ramdas Coastal Steamer sank off Bombay claiming 550 lives.
5/11/1999Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19.
7/24/1991Industrial licensing scrapped.
7/24/1991Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same.
11/21/1998India 'B' beats Sri Lanka 3-2 in the final of the Bristol Freedom Cup four-nation football tournament in Colombo.