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Historical Event on 12/23/1992

Varma Commission indicts IB, the Centre and Tamil Nadu police for failure to protect Rajiv Gandhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/12/1997aspal Rana equals world mark in standard pistol 25m (ISU) event in South Asian shooting in Delhi.
3/3/1978Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Calender started.
8/7/1991India successfully launches Prithvi-III, surface-to-air missile from Sriharikota.
7/20/1654Portugal was taken over by Britishers.
11/2/1971Roberto Fernandes, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Goa.
12/21/2000Central Zone and South Zone are declared joint winners after the game ends in a tie in the final of the Deodhar Trophy one day cricket tournament in Lucknow.
1/29/1780Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
10/24/1955Ghulam Ahmad Hasan Muhammad Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman vs England 1982), was born in Kalusta, Maharashtra.
4/6/1930Mahatma Gandhi picked up a lump of natural salt for breaking the 'Salt Law'. He was arrested at Dandi. This movement gathered strength and within a month about one lakh people were sent to jail. This violation of Salt Law was the second great step in India's Freedom Movement.
10/24/2000Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case.