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Historical Event on 5/23/1914

The British India Steamship Co. and the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Co. announced their amalgamation at London.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/19/1999The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart.
2/7/1922Britain threatens crackdown in India to combat Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign.
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4/19/1995Rajendra Kumari Bajpai appointed the Lt. Governor of Pondichery.
5/13/1953The first Indian Navy air station INS Garuda was commissioned at Venduruthy, the naval base in Cochin.
6/22/198219 persons were killed and 25 injured when an Air India Boeing 707 from Singapore via Madras crashed at Bombay.
11/23/1897Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, writer, was born.
1/8/1993FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500.