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Historical Event on 1/23/1814

Sir Alexander Canningham, Indian Archeologist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/20/1948Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
8/20/1955Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists.
5/13/1648Construction of the Red Fort at Dehli was completed.
7/25/1997Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918-1999) retired from the post of 9th President.
11/17/1973Mother Pondicherry, greatest teacher and religious leader, died.
8/28/1906Chintamani Govind (Mama Pendse), great actor, was born.
1/10/1897Wildemar Modecai Haffkine, famous scientist, innoculated himself with vaccine against Plague publicly to demonstrate the harmlessness of the product in Bombay. The method of preparation of this vaccine has remained the same till now for more then hundred years.
1/17/1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.
4/26/1999India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner.
12/28/1996India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in the first innings of the game.