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Historical Event on 4/23/1968

Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/14/1999Sheikh Shamim, an Indian, is hanged for espionage in Pakistan.
1/26/1950Government of India accepted the National Emblem. It consisted of Head of Lion which is taken from Ashok piller situated near Sarnath.
6/3/1890Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, was born.
6/19/1947Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay.
8/11/1999Ramnath Parkar, former Indian opening batsman, died in Mumbai.
8/29/1995National Sports Day declared.
7/7/197378 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India).
7/28/1994Sudhakarrao Naik, G. Ramanujam and O. N. Srivastava appointed Governors.
1/22/1986Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
3/28/1916Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away.