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Historical Event on 8/23/1986

B. G. Deshmukh was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27th March, 1989.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/12/1905Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London.
11/6/2000Richa Mishra creates a national record in the women's 400m individual medley in 5.15.28sec in the 55th Senior National Aquatic championship in Calcutta.
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.
1/5/1992Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st cricket Test wkt.
9/4/1997Madhavrao Scindia, Tariq Anwar, Meira Kumar, Oscar Fernandes and R. R. Dhawan appointed AICC general-secretaries by party president Sitaram Kesri.
4/18/1930Surya Sen alias Masterda attacked on Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army.
7/25/1929Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born.
2/1/1972International Airports Authority of India established.
5/17/1996Four members (Sange Sherpa, Hira Ram, Tashi Ram, Nadre Sherpa) of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition climb Mount Everest from the Chinese side.
9/6/1674Faced with a critical situation, De la Haye had to capitulate and surrender St Thome to the Dutch who allowed the Sultan of Golconda to re-occupy it.