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Historical Event on 4/23/1938
Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/25/1899 | Nazrul Islam, revolutionary and Bengali poet, was born in Churulia village of Burdwan district. |
| 9/25/1985 | Akali Dal wins Punjab state elections. |
| 8/29/1998 | Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi. |
| 8/29/1976 | Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh. |
| 11/12/1969 | Indira Gandhi, who was expelled from Congress for indiscipline during President elections, made a large split and formed her own Congress Party with Jagjivan Ram as President. The party is recognised as Congress (I). |
| 5/24/1875 | Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan established Mohmmad Anglo Oriental School which was renamed in 1920 as 'Aligarh Muslim University'. |
| 6/4/1989 | Melville de Mellow, Eminent broadcaster, died. |
| 12/15/1951 | Scindia's SS Jal Pushpa launched. |
| 6/23/1761 | Balaji Bajirao (Nanasaheb), third peshwa, died at Pune, after losing in the Third Battle of Panipat on 12 June. |
| 2/19/1993 | Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya. |
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