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Historical Event on 11/23/1994

100 killed in a stampede of Govari Samaj people during a protest march towards Nagpur Assembly.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/1/1986Pope John Paul II arrives in New Delhi for a 10-day visit.
10/12/1997India Seniors lift Challenger Trophy cricket title.
2/5/1986Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away.
12/15/1894Saraswatibai, famous singer and classical music expert, was born.
2/3/1990Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was finally arrested in Chakradharpur forest.
7/2/1961Prof M S Thacker, DG-CSIR, laid the foundation stone for the wind tunnel complex.
1/21/1997Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta.
11/3/1933Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal).
10/3/1978Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta.
11/21/1961Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef