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Historical Event on 12/23/1998
Jayaprakash Narayan posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna, the country's biggest honour.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/17/1999 | Chiranjeev Milkha Singh won the Lexus International Golf tournament in Bangkok. |
| 5/15/1864 | Mahavirprasad Dvivedi, famous Hindi litterateur, poet, writer and editor, was born at Daulatpur village in UP. |
| 1/20/1817 | Ram Mohun Roy started Hindu College in Calcutta with the help of Justice H. East David Hare. This college was later renamed as the Presidency College. |
| 3/30/1993 | S. M. Pandit, famous painter, passed away. |
| 11/9/1962 | Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer and educationist Bharat Ratna awardee, died. |
| 11/3/1996 | Deve Gowda, PM, to attend G-15 summit in Harare. This was his first foreign trip as PM. |
| 12/1/1921 | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader, social reformer and freedom fighter was arrested by the British police for six months and sent to jail. |
| 9/23/1992 | Indian-designed pilotless target aircraft 'Lakshya' successfully tested. |
| 11/19/2000 | The Government announces a partial rollback in the price of kerosene by Re. 1 a litre and LPG by Rs. 10 a cylinder in deference to the demands by allies led by the Trinamool Congress. |
| 4/18/1956 | India, Indonesia, Burma, Ceylon and Pakistan meet in New Delhi to reaffirm their faith in Bandung Principles. |
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