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Historical Event on 11/23/1983

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the seventh biennial Commonwealth Summit, meets in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/2/1950India rebukes Mao for invasion of Tibet.
7/21/1977K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
3/10/1998A. B. Vajpayee agrees to form a government with 252 members including the BJP and it's allies.
2/20/1968Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay.
12/9/1999Several MPs in the Lok Sabha demand resignation of the CBI chief in the Priyadarshini Matto murder case.
12/28/1981Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.
5/19/1796Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
10/2/1996Mother Teresa made honorary US citizen.
3/24/1977Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India.