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Historical Event on 10/23/1996
Amjad Ali Khan, sarod maestro, appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/23/1996 | Mughals capture Ahmednagar. |
| 3/4/1919 | Jagtindar Nath Beri, physics expert, was born. |
| 3/4/1919 | Shrichakradhar Swami, founder of 'Mahanubhav Panth', passed away. |
| 8/25/1919 | Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal, former Chief Minister of Bihar and President of Mandal Commission, was born. |
| 2/23/1932 | The N. W. Frontier province is created. |
| 8/9/1909 | Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet, play writer, critic of literature, educationist and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born at Savanur. |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
| 7/2/1999 | In Jammu and Kashmir, nine people are killed by unidentified militants. |
| 6/9/1997 | At least 50 persons were killed and 5,000 families affected in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Gangktok. |
| 2/23/1996 | North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated. |
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