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Historical Event on 6/23/1993
RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/16/1998 | Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, meets her Indian couterpart A B Vajpayee in New Delhi. |
| 7/15/1986 | India protests against China's intrusion of six to seven km into the Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 1/14/1985 | Dr. Nagendra Singh elected World Court Chief. |
| 8/9/1942 | The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'. |
| 1/29/1997 | Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'. |
| 6/15/1986 | K. K. Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), was killed in a motor-scooter accident. |
| 7/18/1993 | Dr. Banoo Coyaji, 75, gets Magsaysay Award for Public Service. |
| 10/29/1961 | New All India Muslim League was established. |
| 5/12/1997 | Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan agree to set up joint working groups on a range of issues to be identified by Foreign Secretaries. |
| 11/6/1952 | Dipal Jayant Tilak, journalist and editor, was born. |
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