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Historical Event on 1/23/1976

Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/31/1986Shri Vishwanath More, famous music director, passed away.
6/20/1873Young Men Christian Association of India was established in Calcutta.
2/18/1911World' s first official airmail flight service with 6,500 letters and post cards was made between Bamrauli to Naini (Allahabad) on February 18, 1911.
11/29/2000India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.
10/31/1991Karsevaks' hoist flags on Masjid in Ayodhya.
2/2/1977Jagjivan Ram, Cabinet member of 30 years, resigns to protest emergency rule causing minor split in Congress party.
12/31/1956Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, lawyer, politician and social worker, died at the age of 80.
9/5/1988The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill.
5/30/1999India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.
4/23/1987Supreme Court in a judgement confers Hindu widows absolute ownership of property under Hindu Succession Act 1956.