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Historical Event on 6/23/1994
Two Britishers held hostage by terrorists in Kashmir for 17 days were set free.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/6/1955 | Marshall Tito and Nehru's joint declaration in Belgrade. |
| 7/11/1980 | Ebbie Kodiat, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Kuwait. |
| 8/19/1992 | K.R.Narayanan elected the ninth Vice President of India. |
| 1/18/1925 | Gajanan Johari, famous Marathi writer, was born. |
| 5/23/1924 | Venkatraman Narayan Swamy, cricketer (one Test v NZ in 1955, DNB, 0-45), was born in Calicut. |
| 1/17/1925 | Abdul Hafeez Kardar, cricketer (Pakistan 1st Test captain, previously played for India), was born in Lahore. |
| 7/17/1979 | Jagjivan Ram elected Janata parliamentary party leader. Charan Singh is PM heading Janatha (S)-Congress coalition and Jagjivan Ram is leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha. |
| 3/24/1944 | Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born. |
| 11/14/1889 | Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India, was born. To commemorate his birthday, this day is observed as 'Children's Day' from 1957. |
| 2/16/1980 | The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898. |
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