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Historical Event on 2/23/1993

Jnanpith Award was given to Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya).

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/22/1999Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur.
4/9/1999K. Sasikiran won the National 'A' chess title with a round to spare in Nagpur.
10/10/1996UP polls throw up a hung assembly.
1/10/1920India became member of League of Nations.
7/25/1988Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
12/21/1998The Viswabharati University in Calcutta presents the 'Deshikottama' award to Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen.
2/24/1936Laxmibai Tilak, famous marathi poet, passed away.
4/4/1951West Germany establishes full diplomatic relations with India.
4/4/1951Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born.
1/31/1995ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997).