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23 July

🇮🇳 In India

1555 Humayun reconquered Delhi after defeating Sikandar Suri in Machiwara and Sarhind battles.

1856 Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.

1898 Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born.

1906 Chandra Sekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (Hindustan Socialist Republican Army), was born in Bhavra, Central India Agency, British India.

1927 The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.

🌎 Elsewhere

1829 William A. Burt patented his "typographer," an early typewriter.

1888 Raymond Chandler, writer of detective stories, creator of the character Philip Marlow, was born in Chicago.

1894 Japanese troops take over the Korean imperial palace.

1921 The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.

1974 The military government in Greece collapses and the former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited to return.

1982 International Whaling Commission bans commercial whale hunting. 25 countries voted to put the restrictions and ban in place.

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