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Historical Event on 10/23/1999

V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/17/1974J.P. Narain leads an agitation for dissolution of the Bihar Assembly.
1/26/1931Gandhiji was unconditionally released from prison.
12/16/1999Likhiram Karve, Madhya Pradesh's Minister for Transport, is hacked to death by naxalites.
10/4/1953India elected to the UN Trusteeship Council.
5/17/1993Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relation.
6/4/1902Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928), was born.
4/1/1933Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.
9/27/1990Kabita Garari sets record for 10 Km W (Women) in 48.10 at Beijing Asian Games.
2/12/1993The baggage rules relaxed further.
3/30/1913B. S. Soman, first Admiral of India, was born.