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Historical Event on 5/23/1996

1995-96 deficit touches a new high at Rs.19,855 crore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/12/1948Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji.
4/23/1994Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait, former Indian Union Muslim League president, floats a new party - the Indian National League.
1/30/1999Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna.
11/1/1996Three national parties (Indira Congress, Janata Party and Samata Party) to lose their recognition as national parties as they failed to get the minimum required support in the general election to the 11th Lok Sabha.
7/27/1994Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses.
8/11/1997135 persons killed in flash floods in Shimla & Kiannaur districts of Himachal Pradesh.
1/18/1995Kumble takes 16-99 in a match for Karnataka vs Kerala.
5/17/1980V. S. Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on one foot for continuous 33 hrs.
7/23/1997India decides to sign U.N. Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
11/22/1989General Election ( 9th) of India begins for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in 5 states.