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Historical Event on 5/23/1984

Bachendri Pal, an employee of Tata Iron and Steel Co. Limited at Jamshedpur, conquers the summit of Mount Everest to become the first Indian woman and the fifth women in the world to achieve this feat.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/17/1911Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born.
3/24/1998200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
11/27/1962Britain agreed to supply arms to India.
12/12/1959Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener 1981-92), was born in Madras.
1/1/1877Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar.
1/6/1847Saint Tyagaraja, great musician, died.
6/15/1988Dalai Lama recoganised the rights of China in foreign affairs and Army Operations in Tibet region.
2/8/1943Subhashchandra Bose started his journey to Japan from Kiel along with his secretary Major Abid Hassan in a submarine.
2/18/1871Vishnubuwa Brahamchari, first missionary of Hindu religion, passed away.