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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
8/1/1964Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh, Padma Vibhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/07/1969.
1/24/1950Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected to become the first President of India and 'Jana Gana Mana....' was accepted as the National Anthem of the country.
12/15/1997Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University.
8/23/1989Pandit Krishnarao Shankarrao, great singer of 'Gwalher Gharana', passed away.
1/19/1997Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta.
2/16/1993Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy.
8/17/1986In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".
10/18/1712Jeremias Van Riemsdijk, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1775-77), was born.
2/3/1977Government relaxes rules of Emergency to permit normal political activity and electioneering.
4/1/1855Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's first Bengali primer 'Varnaparichay' was published.