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Historical Event on 4/23/1991

Major parties agree to have polls in Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1948India raised voice against Pakistani infilatration in the country. A complaint was lodged in the Security Council of United Nation on Kashmir invasion.
12/14/1955Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, died in Bombay.
8/9/1963India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow.
6/6/1997New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being.
9/17/1998Rabri Devi, Chief Minister of Bihar, expands the Cabinet, inducting nine ministers, even as the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Soren) group formally withdraws support to her ministry.
12/1/1970T. Swaminathan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 02-11-1972
1/27/1984First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam.
12/5/1898Josh Malihabadi, famous Urdu poet, was born.
1/15/1949General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day.
7/18/1980Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit.