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Historical Event on 9/23/1967
P. S. Vaidya, great Indian ODI pace bowler (1995-96), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/23/1967 | Saint Gyaneshwar passed away. (Samadhee). |
| 9/20/1921 | Pamanmal Hazari Punjabi, right-hand batsman (164 runs in five tests vs Pakistan in 1954-55), was born at Karachi. |
| 5/4/1932 | Many are arrested as Congress agents picket Bombay post offices in celebration of Gandhi Day. |
| 11/24/1988 | Mizoram became the first Lok Sabha member. |
| 10/24/1945 | UNO Day. |
| 6/13/1940 | Revolutionary leader Udham Singh was hanged for charges of assassinating Micheal Odair, who was the Governor General of Punjab at the time of Jalianwala Baug massacre. |
| 8/17/1882 | Sir Ram Nath Chopra, noted professor of Pharmacology, was born. |
| 2/20/1953 | India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA. |
| 1/26/1950 | India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation. |
| 9/23/1992 | Indian-designed pilotless target aircraft 'Lakshya' successfully tested. |
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