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Historical Event on 2/23/1997

Justice J. S. Verma appointed Chief Justice of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/20/1959Tej Bahadur Sapru passed away.
4/24/1929First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off.
2/10/1943Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3.
5/1/1981Sindhudurga district was formed in Maharashtra State.
1/19/1995Goa Cong (I) government led by Pratap Singh Rane gets absolute majority when 4-members of MGP merged with Congress.
4/1/1973India starts a drive to save tigers from extinction.
6/5/1999The Army releases documents seized from three Pakistani soldiers in the Batalik sector to substantiate its claim that Pakistan regulars are involved in the Kargil conflict.
6/15/1949Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72.
7/9/1969Sagi Lakshmi Venkatapathy Raju, cricketer (Indian slow left-armer), was born in Hyderabad.
9/28/1940Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as ""The Chhattisgarh Gandhi"".