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Historical Event on 3/23/1967

Pandey Bechain Sharma (Ugra) passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/12/1961Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died.
2/7/1687Mughal army won the Gowalkonda fort. Kutubshahi came to end.
7/15/1948Establishment of 'PEPS' (Patiyala and East Punjab States Union).
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
10/9/1999Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
1/31/1963Peacock declared as National Bird of India.
1/18/1968The Resolution on Official Languages was passed by both the houses of the Parliament wherin the need to formulate a more intensive and comprehensive programme for the progressive use of Hindi for Official purposes, preparing annual assessment report for reviewing the progress, formulating a programme for the co-ordinated development of the other languages included in the 8th schedule alongwith Hindi, adopting of a tri-langual formula, making the knowledge of either Hindi or English compulsory for recruitment to the services of the Union, and inclusion of all the languages of the 8th schedule of the Constitution and English as the optional medium for the exams conducted by the union Public Service Commission at the appropriate time, has been stressed.
6/9/1948Laloo Prasad Yadav, former Chief Minister of Bihar, was born.
1/28/1951Kashmir issue taken up in UN security council.
10/5/1997Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country.