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Historical Event on 10/23/1824

Rani Chainema fight with the Britishers at a 'killa' (fort) in Kitur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/28/1919Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born.
1/21/1945Shri Rashbehari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, passed away at Tokyo, Japan, at the age of 60.
4/21/1720Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath passed away and was succeeded by his son Peshwa Baji Rao I. He was a great soldier and General.
3/21/1939Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow.
1/1/1950Inauguration of National Chemical Laboratory at Mumbai.
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
8/27/1958Metric system of weights and measures introduced.
2/10/1986Pope John Paul II ends visit to India.
1/26/1982Meera Behn (Medlin Slade) freedom fighter, and Gandhin by thought awarded 'Padma Vibhushan'.
11/1/1996K.L. Chugh and J.N. Sapru, former chairmen of ITC, remanded to custody in connection with FERA violation case.