Historical Events December 23.

1912: Viceroy Lord Harding II entered the city on an elephant to declare New Delhi as the capital of the country, but during this time he was injured in a bomb blast.

1940 : Walchand Hirachand started the Hindustan Aircraft Factory in Bangalore, marking the beginning of India’s aircraft manufacturing industry.

1947: Bell Research Labs in the United States announced the invention of the transistor device.

1954: Dr. J. Hartwell Harrison and Dr. Joseph E. Murray performed the first successful kidney transplant surgery by removing a living kidney.

1954: Bijan Kumar Mukherjea became the fourth Chief Justice of India.

1968: Successful launch of India’s first meteorological rocket Maneka.

2000: Central Government approved renaming Calcutta as Kolkata

2001: The world’s largest Buddhist stupa was found at Kesaria village in Bihar’s Champaranya district. Its height is 104 feet.

2008: World Bank banned software company Satyam.

 

Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries December 23

1725: Ahmad Shah Bahadur, the 13th Mughal Emperor.

1853: Kamalakanta Bhattacharya, an Assamese prominent essayist, and poet.

1854: Henry B. Guppy, a British surgeon, geologist, botanist, and photographer.

1889: Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan, the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. 

1902: Chaudhary Charan Singh, the 5th Prime Minister of India.

1940: Mamnoon Hussain, as the 12th President of Pakistan.

 

Death Anniversaries December 23

1834: Thomas Robert Malthus, an English cleric, scholar, and influential economist.

1926: Swami Shraddhanand, an Indian Independence activist and an Arya Samaj sannyasi.

1959: Edward Frederick Wood, the former viceroy of India.

2000: Noor Jehan, a Pakistani playback singer, and actress.

2004: P. V. Narasimha Rao, the 9th Prime Minister of India.

2010: K. Karunakaran, an Indian politician, and former chief minister of Kerala.

2013: G. S. Shivarudrappa, an Indian Kannada poet, writer, and researcher.

2013: Mikhail Kalashnikov, a Russian Lieutenant-General, inventor, military engineer, writer, and small arms designer. He is most famous for developing the AK-47 assault rifle.

2014: K. Balachander, an Indian filmmaker, and playwright.