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Historical Event on 8/23/2000

Pronindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, dies of a massive heart attack at the AIIMS, New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/16/1933Surya Sen Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, who attacked the Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army and was underground on Jalalabad Hills, was arrested.
10/29/1935Narendra Kumar Chhajerh, great industrialist, was born.
7/31/1992Thailand Airlines crashed in Himalayan Range, 113 persons died.
7/9/1999Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta.
12/28/1972C. Rajagopalachari, the only Indian Governor General, died.
7/19/1969Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.
12/26/1921Nurul. S. Hasan, educationist and statesman, was born at Lucknow (U.P).
5/25/1979Commercial Unity Day started.
9/21/1945British promise India independence.
2/26/1971Noel David, Hyderabad off-spinner who played ODI in 1997, was born.