This Day in History on 23rd March
The historical events hold a lot of value for aspirants who are sitting for UPSC competitive exams including the IAS Exam.
On this page, we will list all historical events that occurred on 23rd March. The students can refer to them while preparing for all competitive exams and banking exams.
Important Days
- World Tuberculosis Day: This day is celebrated to commemorate the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch discovered the TB bacillus.
- Martyrs Memorial Day: on the death anniversary of Bhagat Singh in 1931
- Pakistan Resolution Day, also known as Republic Day or just Pakistan Day
Important Events
1839: The word OK first used in the Boston Morning Post.
1857: The first elevator opened in New York City.
1919: Benito Mussolini started the fascist movement in Milan, Italy.
1931: Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev executed.
1940: A resolution for the creation of a fully independent Pakistan passed at a convention of the Muslim League in Lahore.
1956: Pakistan became the world’s first Islamic republic.
1980: Prakash Padukone became the first Indian to win the All England Badminton Championship.
1998: Actor Dilip Kumar awarded Nishan-e-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s highest civilian honor.
1999: Pt. Bhimsen Joshi and Lata Mangeshkar were honored with Padma Vibhushan.
1999: Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and actress Sulochana were awarded the Padma Shri.
2001: Russia’s Mir space station crashed.
Birthday / Anniversary
1699: John Bartram, an early American botanist.
1749: Pierre-Simon Laplace, a French mathematician.
1855: Kottarathil Sankunni, an Indian writer of Malayalam literature.
1880: Basanti Devi, an Indian independence activist.
1881: Hermann Staudinger, a German organic chemist.
1883: M. Govinda Pai, a Kannada poet.
1893: Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, Indian engineer and businessman (d. 1974)
1898: Nalini Bala Devi, an Indian writer, and poet of Assamese literature.
1901: Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (d. 1982)
1910: Ram Manohar Lohia, an activist in the Indian independence movement and a socialist political leader.
1923: Hemu Kalani, a Sindhi revolutionary and freedom fighter.
1926: Ravindra Pinge, a Marathi writer
1929: Govind Swarup, a radio astronomer.
1931: Viktor Korchnoi, was a Soviet (until 1976) and Swiss (since 1994) chess grandmaster and writer
1953: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian entrepreneur. She is the chairman and managing director of Biocon Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore (Bengaluru), India
1968: Meka Srikanth, an Indian film actor.
1976: Smriti Irani, an Indian politician, former model, television actress, and producer.
1987: Kangana Ranaut, an Indian actress, and filmmaker.
Death / Death Anniversary
1927: Lala VC, an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross.
1931: Bhagat Singh, Shivram Rajguru, and Sukhdev Thapar, Indian revolutionaries.
1938: Maharaja Sir Bhupinder Singh, Maharaja of Patiala, and former Indian cricketer.
1991: Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1913)
2011: Elizabeth Taylor, an English-American actress.