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Historical Event on 2/23/1997

176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/1/1964Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh, Padma Vibhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/07/1969.
11/11/1998India objects to Washington's discrimination in easing sanctions against New Delhi and Islamabad, clamped in the wake of the nuclear tests by the two countries.
11/5/1999The CBI arrests the Bihar Road Construction Minister Illiyas Hussain and conducts raids in the Bitumen scam case.
4/22/1994Sushil, great Jain Muni Acharya, passed away.
6/4/1953University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru.
7/27/199511 Cong-I and National Conference activists were gunned down in J&K after they were abducted from their homes.
2/2/1967US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics.
10/24/1994The Supreme Court refused to answer Presidential reference on Ayodhya and acquisition of disputed land was upheld.
11/15/1999Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.