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Historical Event on 12/23/1954
Judge Bijan Kumar Mukherjea became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 31/01/1956.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/12/1925 | Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in 2 Tests for India 1959), was born in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 7/30/1992 | The Supreme Court declares that capitation fee in educational institutions is unlawful. |
| 9/22/1970 | Bandopadhyay Shardendu, modern Bengali poet, died. |
| 9/13/1991 | Churchil Alemao, former Goa CM, who was wanted under COFEPOSA, surrenders to the police in Panaji. |
| 3/14/1992 | NTR expels Upendra and six others from Telegu Desam Party. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu 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. |
| 11/9/1977 | Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away. |
| 8/20/1985 | Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, a ragi, reluctant politician and Sikh leader, died. He was shot by Sikh extremists at Sherpur. |
| 8/25/1975 | Bundelkhand University was established in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 7/13/1990 | Boby Talyarkhan, famous sports critic and author, died. |
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