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Historical Event on 12/23/1992

Varma Commission indicts IB, the Centre and Tamil Nadu police for failure to protect Rajiv Gandhi.

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7/4/1997Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls.
12/15/1976Baichung Bhutia, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Gangtok, Sikkim.
4/1/1989Shridhar Madhav Joshi (S. M. Joshi), great socialist leader, passed away.
1/18/1977Morarji Desai and other opposition leaders were released from jail and Lok Sabha was dissolved by the president during the emergency period.
10/21/1997Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet.
5/17/1916Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore.
6/25/2000India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur.
3/31/1997Forex reserves touch a record $ 22.36 billions.
8/27/1946Gandhiji cables warning to British Government against repetition of ""Bengal Tragedy"". He also wrote to Wavell.
11/15/1913Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15)