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Historical Event on 6/23/1987

D. Chakraborty was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 02-07-1991.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/15/1902Bhaurao Krishnarao Gaekwad, great leader, was born. He was a colleagu of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
5/14/1994LTTE banned for the second time under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
4/22/1812Dalhousie, governor general of India, was born.
5/17/1992Import of 106 life-saving drugs and 37 equipments allowed.
9/7/1998Prof. K. M. Chandy, Congress (I) leader and former Governor of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, died in Kochi at the age of 77.
12/3/19843,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.
10/31/1999Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award.
9/27/199573 people died in a coal mine accident in Gaslitand in Dhanbad district, Bihar, when flood water leaked into the mine.
12/16/1971Bangladesh was formed. President Yahya Khan of Pakistan changed his position dramatically and announced he would accept a ceasefire with India. After his forces in East Pakistan surrendered unconditionally, Yahya Khan vowed to keep fighting in the West against his political enemy. His reversal today undermines his administration, and there are growing indications he will step down as head of the military government. Yahya has already been criticized for his brutal repression of the Bengali separatist movement, which has renamed East Pakistan as Bangladesh. It appears that the separatists may actually benefit from the fighting, because India has managed to defeat most of Yahya's military forces in East Pakistan.
8/29/1975Adinath Lahiri, leading geologist, passed away.