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Historical Event on 1/23/1997

50,000 miners in Orissa lose jobs as 57 mines are closed down.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/10/1995Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away.
8/12/1997Bar Council of India debars full-time law teachers from practising as lawyers.
3/1/1903Pareshchandra Bhattacharya, former Gonerner of Indian Reserve Bank, was born.
12/12/2000A special court for CBI cases rejects Hinduja brothers' plea and summons them to appear on January 19, 2001.
3/26/1987Hyderabad beat Delhi on first innings to win the Ranji Trophy.
1/23/1664Shahaji Raje died in an accident.
10/6/1990Justice Ranganath Mishra sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
2/7/2000Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.
4/5/1944221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.
2/8/1994Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432.