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Historical Event on 9/23/1990
World Bank clears Rs.1,200 crore aid for Sarovar Dam rejecting objections raised by environmental groups.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/1905 | Horse drawn tram cars were closed down in Bombay. This service was started on May 9, 1874 with 20 tram cars and 200 horses. The very first day of its run, the number of passengers carried was 451 and the amount earned was Rs. 85/- on the last day it had 1360 horses and carried 71,947 passengers and earned Rs.4,260/. |
| 10/23/1973 | Sambamurthy Pichhu, famous musician of Madras, died. |
| 8/15/1950 | Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives. |
| 10/2/1975 | Kumaraswami Kamaraj, great freedom fighter, social reformer, political leader and member of the Lok Sabha, died in Madras. |
| 2/10/1986 | Pope John Paul II ends visit to India. |
| 9/12/1912 | T. A. Ramachandran, cricket Test Umpire of one test during 1948-49, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 5/1/1913 | Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born. |
| 8/3/1967 | Rasiklal Das, great revolutionary, died. |
| 4/20/1989 | Launching of IRBM `Agni' fails. |
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