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Historical Event on 12/23/1944

U C Joshi, cricketer (Sussex off-spinner 1970-74 from India), was born.

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5/26/1935Swami Mrigendra Channaya, great Social Scientist in Maharashtra, was born.
2/26/1996Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
11/11/1992S.Bangarappa resigns as the CM of Karnataka.
8/26/1947Nawab of Bhopal announced accession of the Bhopal state to the Indian Dominion.
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1/3/1985Azharuddin scores 110 in first Test innings.
8/15/1997The Government bans doctors from determining the sex of the foetus.
6/9/1994Yogi Dhirendra Bhramachari, [controversial Flying Swami], hindu saint, died in an air crash near Jammu. He was 70.
7/1/1949M. Venkaiah Rangaiah Naidu was born in Chavatapalem, Distt. Nellore (Andhra Pradesh).