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Historical Event on 2/23/1962

The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/2/1922Krishnapal Singh, politician and lawyer, was born at Birahuli in Madhya Pradesh.
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
9/22/1979Maulana Abdul Ali Moudoodi aka Syed Abul A'la Maududi Chishti, founder leader of the Jamait- E- Islam, died in USA, he had taken pakistani citizenship.
12/4/1989Hardeo Joshi replaces Shiv Charan Mathur as CM of Rajasthan.
7/31/1919Hemchandra ""Hemu"" Ramchandra Adhikari, cricketer (right-handed batsman 1947-59), was born in Baroda.
5/3/1936Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey], famous singer, was born in Madras, India.
1/17/1952The pension work of CDA (Factories), Calcutta and the Defence civilians in ordnance factories was transferred to the office of the CDA (P), Allahabad.
8/27/1997Daljeet Singh and Debi Bose set national records in the Federation Cup athletics at Chennai in javelin throw and hurdles respectively.
11/5/1927Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, met Gandhiji, S.Shriniwas Iyengar and M.A. Ansari Congress leaders at New Delhi.
1/21/1981Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, passed away.