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Historical Event on 5/23/1990

Banarasi Das Gupta elected CM of Haryana following Om Prakash Chautala's resignation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/18/1993Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".
7/7/197378 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India).
11/20/1967First Indian made Sounding Rocket 'Rohini RH75' launched into space from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station.
10/20/1989Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over West Indies and India.
6/6/1981The worst-ever railway accident took place in Bihar when a train plunged in Samastipur river.
5/13/1971General Insurance nationalized.
11/21/1985Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1958-60), passed away.
6/1/1959N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party.
9/8/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
4/1/1882Savings Bank Postal system was introduced.