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Historical Event on 6/23/1946

Gandhiji advises Congress not to enter Interim Government, but only Constituent Assembly.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/11/1997NHRC recommends to Central Government measures to prevent government servants from employing children below 14 as domestic servants.
12/29/1909Congress at Lahore adopts resolution praising Indians' struggle in South Africa and urged ban on indenture.
2/12/1922Mahatma Gandhi announce the withdrawal of non-cooperation movement.
8/8/1932Dada Kondke, famous Marathi actor, was born.
7/5/1857Baigum Hazrat Mahal again attack on Lucknow.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
7/1/1781British troops defeated Hyder Ali's progress. He was checked by Eyree Coote after the battle of Porto Novo and becamed subdued.
7/1/1997Prime Minister inaugurated India's first Science City in Calcutta.
11/8/1966Rameshwari Nehru, freedom fighter and social worker, died at 80 years in New Delhi. She founded ""Stree-Darpan"" Magazine in 1909 and was president of ""Indian Women Association"". She had received Lenin Peace Prize in 1961 for her humanitarian services for upliftment of the down
10/5/1805Lord Charles Cornwallis, Governor General, died of ill health at Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh.