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Historical Event on 2/23/1932

The N. W. Frontier province is created.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/15/1686Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi's era.
6/29/1757Mir Zafar was installed on the throne as the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orrisa from Murshidabad.
9/30/1997At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir.
9/7/1947Gandhiji leaves Calcutta for Delhi; commences daily visits to riot-affected areas.
4/24/1959Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
3/24/1944Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born.
9/18/1917Sher Singh, educationist and politician, was born at Baghpur (Haryana).
4/16/1962Third Lok Sabha constituted after the third general election in India. J. L. Nehru forms the third Congress ministry.
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
1/27/1931Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign.