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Historical Event on 12/23/2000
The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government's proposal to rename Calcutta as ''Kolkata''.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/13/1968 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee elected President of the All India Jan Sangha. |
| 4/10/1997 | Announcement of UP's 70th new district to be re-named after Jyotiba Phule. |
| 5/10/1905 | Pankaj Malik, music director, was born. |
| 11/14/1967 | Saba Karim, Indian ODI wicket-keeper 1997, was born. |
| 4/26/1762 | Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, was born at Tiruvarur. |
| 11/19/1985 | Lall Singh, cricketer (one Test for India 1932), passed away. |
| 4/12/1799 | The Church Missionary Society was organized in London under the original name of the Society for Missions in Africa and the East. This Anglican missions agency currently works in fields located in Africa, Ceylon, India, Pakistan, Iran and Palestine. |
| 7/3/1936 | Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling during Cambridge U vs MCC match. |
| 2/20/1863 | Pandit A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous Malyalam poet, grammer expert and Sanskrit expert, was born. |
| 1/14/1773 | Amstored Lord William Piet, governor, was born. |
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