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Historical Event on 12/23/1998

Jayaprakash Narayan posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna, the country's biggest honour.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1937Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji, cricketer (Indian keeper in 60's), was born in Jamnagar.
6/15/1937Jalal'ud-din Firuz Khalji establishes the Khalji dynasty at Delhi.
8/7/1905The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
9/12/1961Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died.
6/29/1976Sandhya Chib, Miss India-Universe (1996), was born.
7/27/1941Japanese forces land in Indo-China.
10/2/1998Santanu Deb Barma of Tripura was chosen for Kabir Puraskar for her role in preventing violence and riots in some areas of the state in 1997.
5/13/2000Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to ''voice our choices and opinions'' is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia.
8/7/1998The Government announces a banking and foreign exchange package for development of the information technology and software industry following the recommendations of the National Task Force.
8/6/1962Peking agrees to talks with India to settle border disputes.