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Historical Event on 2/23/1998

The Samajwadi Party candidate for the Motihari Lok Sabha seat, Mr. Devendra Nath Dubey, is shot dead at Baniarpur in Patna.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/20/1885First meeting of the Indian National Congress held.
7/1/1862Calcutta High Court was established for West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This Court has a Circuit Bench at Port Blair.
1/10/1966Tashkent Conference between Pakistan and Indian leaders ended after signing of peace accord by Lal Bahadur Shastri and General Ayub Khan.
7/21/1999The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA.
9/7/1998Swami Ranganathananda is elected the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Order.
8/2/2000The Lok Sabha performs a ''hat-trick'' by setting off the process for the creation of three new states by passing the Jharkhand Bill.
5/9/1917Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India.
4/13/1994United Arab Emirates lost to India in its first official ODI.
11/29/1644The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith.
5/30/196269 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad.