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Historical Event on 2/23/1998

The Samajwadi Party candidate for the Motihari Lok Sabha seat, Mr. Devendra Nath Dubey, is shot dead at Baniarpur in Patna.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/27/1997Punjab men and Railway women win National volleyball league in Tiruppur.
10/5/1997Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country.
1/16/1996Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership.
11/21/1991R. Nagarajan, former Tamil Nadu Home Secretary, arrested for harbouring LTTE militants.
4/18/1970Dr. Dharmendra of the Indian Council of Medical Research awarded the Damien-Duttan Award for outstanding work in leprosy.
4/30/1909Kirpal Prem Nath, educationist, was born at Moga (Punjab).
3/9/1914Hansaraj Rahbar, the unfolder of prominent personalities and dynamic writer, was born.
6/15/1969Dr. Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, great pioneer in Indian Geology and professor in development of geo-scientific research in the country, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 86.
7/10/1965First NCC (National Cadet Corps) College for training girls started at Gwalior.
1/17/1923Rangey Raghav, famous hindi writer, was born.