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Historical Event on 6/23/1993

RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/10/1952World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India.
2/2/1917Maharshi Vinayak Ramchandra Patwardhan (Annasaheb), collegue of Lokmanya Tilak, passed away.
4/2/1942Andaman Islands, U.S. Army Air Force Flying Fortresses, bomb the Japanese fleet.
6/5/1994Shakti Singh at Bangalore sets record for DT in 61.72.
12/5/1931Gandhiji leaves England for India.
5/29/1982Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kerala, was approved by Union Cabinet.
11/3/1900Sagarmal Gopa, freedom fighter, was born.
1/15/1949General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day.
9/7/1995Mohammed Yousef Jameel, BBC stringer and special correspondent of The Asian Age, died in a parcel bomb explosion in Srinagar.
4/12/1873Kumaran Asan, famous Malyalam poet and social reformer, was born at Kayikkara, Kerala.