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23 October

🇮🇳 In India
1934 Mahatma Gandhi resigned as the leader of the Indian National Congress as he felt that his popularity with Indians was stifling the party's membership.
1943 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose founded the 'Rani Brigade of Jhansi' of Azad Hind Fauj in Singapore.
1996 Amjad Ali Khan, sarod maestro, appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.
🌎 Elsewhere
1915 25,000 women marched in New York City, demanding the right to vote.
1940 Pele, legendary Brazilian soccer player who scored 1,281 goals in 22 years, was born.
1946 The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time.
1956 The International Atomic Energy Agency was created with the purpose of increasing the contribution of atomic energy to world peace.
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
2001 Apple releases the iPod, a portable media player that became one of the most successful and revolutionary products of the early 2000s.
2018 World's oldest intact shipwreck, ancient Greek vessel 2,400 years old, found at bottom of the Black Sea by archaeologists.


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