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23 June

🇮🇳 In India

1661 Princess Catherine of Portugal wed King of England Charles II. Portugal gave island of Mumbai to England as present. The British got Bombay as dowry from Portugal.

1757 The Battle of Plassey started between Robert Clive, incharge of British army, and Nawab of Bengal, Siraj -Ud -Daula. In this battle Robert Clive won control of Bengal.

1921 Munshi Premchand, famous Hindi author, resigned form his post of School Inspector to join Mahatma Gandhi's Non-cooperation Movement.

1980 Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician and son of Indira Gandhi, died in an airplane crash shortly after his mother's return to power.

🌎 Elsewhere

1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer".

1912 Alan M Turing, English mathematician and pioneer of computer theory, was born. He cracked the Enigma code in World War II that was used by the Germans to communicate with their submarines.

1934 Italy gains the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.

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