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Historical Event on 3/23/1997

10 Dalits killed in Kab village of Bihar by Ranbir Sena, a pro-landlord extremist organisation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/12/1958Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur.
3/5/1989Bhagwat Jha Azad, Bihar CM, resigns.
8/14/1980Centre nationalizes Maruti company.
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
2/1/1831The first Fine Arts Exhibition by Brush Club was held in a Public Library of Calcutta.
5/19/1980Dr. Ramashankar Shukla 'Rasal', famous writer, passed away.
12/8/1897Balkrishna Sharma ""Navin"", famous Hindi poet, was born in Bhyana village of Shajapur district in Madhya Pradesh
8/4/1937Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, famous lawyer, philosopher, ancient researcher and eminent historian, died at Patna.
1/18/1997Khanna Committee recommends more power to RBI over non-banking financial companies.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.