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Historical Event on 2/23/1980

Prakash Padukone becomes the first Indian to win All-England Badminton Championship.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/1901Vaidya Jogeshchandra Banerjee was born.
2/21/1991Opposition boycotts the President's address as a protest against the dismissal of Tamil Nadu government.
9/3/1906Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'.
3/15/1831First Marathi Almanac (Panchang) started by Ganpat Krishnaji.
6/6/1997Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
3/7/1956A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India.
9/4/1996Celebration of Platinum jubilee of B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital and Topiwal National Medical College from 4th September 1995 to 4th September 1996 (CIVIC).
9/1/1909Father Kamil Bulke was born. He produced a handy English to Hindi dictionary. He did his Ph.D. on 'Ramcharita Manas' and was Head of Hindi Department in Patna University.
1/2/1990Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft.
5/13/1996M. Karunanidhi (DMK) sworn in as Tamil Nadu CM.