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Historical Event on 2/23/1996
North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/2/1934 | Indian Naval Force was established. |
| 8/2/1958 | Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 13 Tests between 1987-89), was born in Hydrabad. |
| 12/11/1999 | Gopalakrishna Gandhi, former High Commissioner to South Africa, is conferred the honorary doctorate by the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. |
| 2/9/1985 | Editor of 'Sakal', a Marathi daily newspaper, passed away. |
| 7/19/1952 | India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 runs earlier in the day. |
| 1/22/1996 | Janata Dal parliamentary party leader Sharad Yadav resigns from Lok Sabha membership (Jain hawala case). |
| 1/20/1992 | Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup. |
| 5/25/1965 | Independent India had further clashes with Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, one over the intractable Kashmir dispute and the other over Bangladesh. A border war was also fought with China in 1962 in the North-Eastern region, which resulted in the loss of Aksai Chin in Ladakh and smaller areas in the North-east. India continues to dispute sovereignty over these areas. |
| 11/13/1999 | Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar. |
| 9/14/1971 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died. |
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