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Historical Event on 10/23/1999
A Boeing 707 carrying Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and his entourage lands safely at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai following a suspected tyre burst.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/25/1951 | First General Election of India begins. |
| 7/17/1979 | Jagjivan Ram elected Janata parliamentary party leader. Charan Singh is PM heading Janatha (S)-Congress coalition and Jagjivan Ram is leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha. |
| 8/16/1997 | Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam. |
| 9/19/1911 | Boyi Bhimanna, great Hindi writer, poet and prolific author, was born at Mamidikuduru in AP. |
| 1/30/1911 | Gajananrao Joshi, famous violin player and singer of ""Gwalior Gharana"", was born. |
| 6/8/1968 | Madhuri Mani Iyyer, famous singer of Karnatak Gharana, passed away. |
| 3/28/1990 | Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient. |
| 4/16/1930 | Rioting continues in India as British police fire on mob of 10,000. |
| 1/14/1990 | India and Maldives scrap visas. |
| 1/21/1963 | Acharaya Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi writer, poet and novelist, died. He was editor of Hindi journals like ""Marwari Sudhar"", ""Samanwaya"", ""Adarsh"" etc. He wrote 400 short stories and 67 biographies. His novel ""Dehati Dunia"" is acclaimed as first regional novel in Hindi. |
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