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Historical Event on 2/23/1997
Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/18/1989 | India and Pakistan decide to end the five-year-old confrontation in Siachen Glacier area by redeploying their forces. |
| 7/9/1999 | Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta. |
| 6/30/1930 | George Fernandes, worker's leader and politician, was born. |
| 12/24/1921 | Rabindranath Tagore established ""Visva Bharati"" at Santiniketan with Brojendra Nath Seal as the chief guest. |
| 4/17/1923 | Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India. |
| 3/26/1992 | Rs. 245 crore relief in customs, excise duties announced. |
| 5/5/1903 | Former minister William Petty declares Persian Gulf a part of British dominion in India. |
| 6/20/1948 | Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union. |
| 5/28/1895 | Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter, author and painter, was born. |
| 3/4/2000 | Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980. |
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