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Historical Event on 2/23/1993

Jnanpith Award was given to Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya).

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/10/1994President's rule in J&K extended for another 6 months beginning 3rd Sept.
1/18/1999Gul Panag (20) from Delhi was crowned Femina Miss India Universe at the Miss India 1999 beauty pageant in Pune.
12/1/1886Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Musran in U.P.
1/1/1976Broadcasting of Commercial Advertisements on TV stations started.
11/11/1913Gandhi sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at South Africa.
8/4/1997Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.
9/29/2000Tata Ramachandra Prasad to be the next Cabinet Secretary.
1/23/1814Sir Alexander Canningham, Indian Archeologist, was born.
1/30/1947Gandhiji leaves Patna for Delhi. Mountbatten, new Viceroy, arrives in Delhi.
3/24/1902Anusilan Samiti, a revolutionary organisation, was formed in Bengal.