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Historical Event on 2/23/1998
The Samajwadi Party candidate for the Motihari Lok Sabha seat, Mr. Devendra Nath Dubey, is shot dead at Baniarpur in Patna.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/9/1991 | India holds the last decennial census of the century. |
| 5/5/1972 | Loknathan P. S., great economist, passed away. |
| 4/13/1984 | Kerala Government drops Silent Valley Project and declares the entire area a national park. |
| 7/3/1985 | Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1988. |
| 12/17/1877 | Feroz Shah died at Makka, Saudi. |
| 4/15/1984 | Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab, India. |
| 7/20/1905 | First Partition of Bengal, which was proposed by Lord Curzon, was accepted by British Government's Minister of India. |
| 3/12/1941 | Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India. |
| 1/19/1919 | Omprakash Mehra, former Indian Air Chief Marshal and former Governor of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 8/29/1956 | India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid. |
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