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Historical Event on 8/23/1986

B. G. Deshmukh was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27th March, 1989.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
12/25/1946Gandhiji said, at Noakhali, ""I am being tested through and through"".
9/15/1997Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control.
8/27/1978Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland.
3/31/1997The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points.
3/31/1997Babur Shah was declared as the Emperor of Dehli.
1/16/1992Prices of steel and iron decontrolled.
1/19/1855G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born.
3/25/1987Marxist-led alliance gets majority in Kerala and West Bengal elections .
11/20/1917J.C. Bose Research Institute was established in Calcutta.