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Historical Event on 1/23/1993

Indian Airlines B737 crashes at Aurangabad, 61 die.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/17/1996Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth.
10/15/1921Gul Muhammad, cricketer (Indian & Pakistani batsman), was born in Lahore.
7/14/1998India is elected chairperson of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's standing panel on information technology in relation to Intellectual Property Rights.
11/12/1939Pratap Chandra Lal arrived at the training establishment at RAF Station, Risalpur. He then rose to the Air Chief Marcharl of Indian Air Force.
11/30/1988Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed.
11/15/1989Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi.
5/26/1906Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"".
5/23/1993Channa Reddy,Rajasthan Governor, shifted to Tamil Nadu. Motilal Vohra appointed in UP and B. Satyanarayan Reddy moved to Orissa.
12/19/1917Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born.
11/2/1999The Delhi HC dismisses a plea against Sonia Gandhi seeking deletion of her name from the register of Indian citizenship.