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Historical Event on 1/23/1814
Sir Alexander Canningham, Indian Archeologist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/27/1854 | Lord Dalhousie captured Jhansi under the East India Company. |
| 5/26/2000 | Prabhakar G. Surur (93) died in Mumbai. |
| 4/2/1992 | Agajan Baig (Aga), famous Hindi film actor, passed away. |
| 4/2/1942 | Congress rejected the proposal of Sir Stepherd Crips. |
| 7/18/1857 | The Calcutta, Mumbai and Madras Universities were established. |
| 1/19/1977 | World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'. |
| 7/23/1993 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2B), second satellite in the INSAT-2 series, was launched. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was aunched by European Ariane launch vehicle. |
| 7/12/1994 | Vasant (V. P. Sathe), film critic, journalist, publisher and author, passed away. |
| 2/15/1976 | The Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE) was established at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. |
| 8/25/1998 | Resurgent India Bonds garner more than 4 billion dollars of which 30\% are from the Middle East, 20\% each from South east Asia, US and Europe. |
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