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Historical Event on 3/23/1911

Indranath Bandopadhyay, Bengali comedy writer and journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/28/1688Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites).
10/17/1979Supreme Court stays the execution of all death sentences.
3/1/1990JD secures four-fifth majority in Orissa Assembly elections; Biju Patnaik becomes the new CM.
8/25/1997Neelam J. Singh rewrites her own discussion mark in the domestic circuit meet in Chennai.
9/15/1927Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena was born.
2/9/1992Pakistan bans JKLF march.
1/26/1997Delhi becomes the first state in India to enforce a ban on smoking in all public places.
2/1/1971Ajaysingh Jadeja, cricketer (Indian opening batsman), was born in Jamnagar.
2/21/1993Naxals free Andhra Pradesh Congress (I) MLA P.Balaraju and a govt. official after 22 days in captivity.
2/22/1944Kasturba Gandhi passed away in British imprisonment in Aga Khan Palace at Pune.