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Historical Event on 1/23/1809
Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Khinda village in the north of Sambalpur at Orissa.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/1/1994 | PM Rao attends the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland. |
| 5/3/1913 | Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay. |
| 7/27/1928 | Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP). |
| 6/30/1834 | Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). |
| 1/31/1960 | Milkha Singh at Lahore sets record for 200m in 20.7s. |
| 7/2/1941 | Muhammad Baqa Jilani, one Test for India, 0-55, died at the age of 29. |
| 4/15/1976 | India announces it will send an envoy to Peking, first time in 15 years. |
| 11/5/1996 | United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I). |
| 1/1/1998 | The Election Commission announces the poll schedule for the 12th Lok Sabha. The polling will be on February 16, 22, 28 and March 7. Simultaneously, elections are to be held for the Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assemblies. |
| 4/14/1948 | Law about Atomic Energy implemented in India. |
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