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Historical Event on 7/23/1923

Navinchandra Chimanlal Pandya, great educationist, was born at Prantij, Ahmedabad.

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1/21/1910Ramnath Anandilal Poddar, great industrialist, was born.
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5/22/1996Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.
7/27/1998B. B. Lyngdoh is sworn in Meghalaya Chief Minister.
1/1/1918Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission.
3/21/1979The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988).
3/26/1980Bombay gets its first rock concert in 10 years (The Police).
4/24/1888Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, was born at Hajo.
5/28/1968Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name.
8/16/1933Mahatma Gandhi goes on fast for being denied to continue the anti-untouchability propaganda.