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Historical Event on 7/23/1996
R. Bhattacharji was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He is heading this office till date.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1947 | Congress Working Committee accepts Partition in principle. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics. |
| 10/3/1890 | Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born. |
| 10/24/2000 | Hyrunnisa, suspected to be the key accused in the Kollam liquor tragedy, nabbed along with her husband and a worker in her shop in Guruvayur. |
| 12/29/1904 | K. V. Puttappa, famous Kannada poet and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born at Hirekodage. |
| 10/17/1979 | Mother Teresa, social worker, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 6/21/1814 | Gilbert Aliat Minto, Governor General of East Indian Company, died. |
| 12/6/1997 | Nine persons killed and over 60 injured in bomb blasts in three trains which left Chennai. Blasts occurred in Tiruchi, Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Trissur in Kerala. |
| 1/19/1931 | The first Round Table Conference held in London ended. This conference was attended by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar also. |
| 9/16/1913 | Kasturba Gandhi was arrested. |
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