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Historical Event on 8/23/1995
First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/8/1993 | Dasarath Deb, veteran tribal leader, elected leader of the Left and Democratic Front legislature party in Tripura. |
| 5/19/1911 | K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 5/19/1911 | Genghis Khan, Monghol conqueror, passed away. |
| 10/2/1961 | Indian Limited Shipping Transport Corporation established. |
| 9/30/1908 | Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi novelist, was born. |
| 9/27/2000 | The Union Cabinet decides to increase the number of Padma series of awards for excellence in different fields of activities from 60 to 100. |
| 7/4/1900 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, was born. |
| 2/24/1994 | Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%. |
| 10/1/1993 | Two more Election Commissioners appointed. |
| 9/3/1993 | Pawar resigns from Lok Sabha to take up the newly won Maharashtra Legislative Council seat. |
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