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Historical Event on 4/23/1991

Major parties agree to have polls in Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/7/1950King Tribhubana Bir Bikram of Nepal flees palace for refuge in Indian Embassy at Kathmandu.
8/1/1997Viswanathan Anand wins the Credit Suisse Masters chess tournament in Beil.
4/3/1857Queen Victoria declared as Queen of India also.
9/1/1999Ace athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; coaches Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh (athletics) and Gurbax Singh Sandhu (boxing) the Dronacharya awards during the Arjuna awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi.
6/5/1997Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned.
2/15/1945Indian troops capture Pagan at Burma.
6/25/1998Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities.
4/13/1984India beat Pak by 58 runs to win the first Cricket Asia Cup in Sharjah.
5/13/1967Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) retired from the post of second President.
8/7/1998The Government announces a banking and foreign exchange package for development of the information technology and software industry following the recommendations of the National Task Force.