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Historical Event on 5/23/1975
P. S. Bapat, victoria cross winner Lieutenant General, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/26/1957 | Janta Insurance Scheme was inaugurated in Bombay. |
| 6/1/1997 | Ghulam Rasool Wani, National Conference leader, kidnapped and shot dead by militants at Kaskot in Doda district, Jammu. |
| 1/31/1992 | The Securities and Exchange Board of India given statutory power as an autonomous body. |
| 4/17/1997 | Biju Patnaik, 81, Janata Dal leader and important personality in Orissa politics, died. |
| 1/15/2000 | Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"". |
| 7/4/1789 | British East India Company signed a treaty with the Nizam of Hydrabad and Peshwa of Pune against Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore, on the understanding that a cavalry of 10,000 would attack Tipu's territory and the conquered area would be divided amongst the three. |
| 1/1/1969 | B. Sivaraman was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-11-1970. |
| 12/9/1999 | BJP expels former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh. |
| 6/4/1936 | Nutan, film actress, was born. |
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