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Historical Event on 3/23/1962

Nawab of Pataudi captains Indian cricket team vs WI at the age of 21 years 77 days.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/6/1990Ashok Shandilya of Railways wins National billiards crown.
2/13/1936Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai.
10/16/1999Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the "Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99'
7/12/1932The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir.
4/26/1995Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.
8/2/1987Geet Sethi retains the World Amateur Billiards title.
11/2/190850 years after the start of direct rule, Edward VII talks of 'prudently extending' democracy.
10/16/1999Dr. Najma Heptulla, Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, is elected president of the 138-nation Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
2/12/1998Om Prakash, 78, Hindi film comedian, passed away in Mumbai.
6/6/1924S. R. Bommai, former President of Janata Dal, was born.