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Historical Event on 12/23/1920

King George V signs Home Rule Act.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/23/1920Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni passed away in his capital.
10/2/1869Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) born to a Bania (trading caste) family at Porbander, Kathiawar. He was the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi, Prime Minister successively in Porbunder, Rajkot and Vankaner States, and his fourth wife Putlibai.
12/25/1979Opening day of Fourth Test Cricket, India 8-112 v Pakistan at Kanpur.
2/24/1899Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born.
8/4/1894Narayan Sitaram Phadke, famous Hindi writer, was born at Karjat.
9/12/1961Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died.
11/18/1901V. Shantaram alias Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, famous film maker and actor (Chitrapat Maharashi), was born.
2/6/1950N. R. Pillai was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 13-05-1953.
5/19/1954The Govt. of India constituted a National Film Board.
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.