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Historical Event on 3/23/1919

Subhadra Joshi, freedom fighter, was born. She took active participation in Salt and non cooperation movement. She also motivated the freedom movement through her newspaper ""Hamara Sangram"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/21/1996Rao resigns Congress Party President post.
2/23/1997176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa.
3/13/1992Indumati Ramkrishna Shevde, famous writer, critic and painter, passed away.
5/31/1928Pankaj Khirod Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad), was born in Calcutta. He was the recipient of Padmashree (1975).
1/8/1995Madhu Limaye, veteran national leader, socialist thinker, freedom fighter, politician, writer, close associate of Ram Manohar Lohia and Jaya Prakash Narayan, passed away.
5/27/1952United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader.
1/29/1948Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas.
7/23/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow.
12/10/1918Rowlatt Act introduced by Lord Chelmsford.
11/28/1993JRD Tata, 89, passed away in Geneva.