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Historical Event on 1/23/1897
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War.
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| 4/18/1998 | Dr. A. R. Kidwai is appointed Governor of West Bengal. |
| 4/1/1976 | Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established. |
| 6/30/1995 | CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan. |
| 11/8/1919 | Madan Theatres Ltd. was founded under a Joint Stock Company at Calcutta. Their maiden venture 'Bilwamangal' was released on November 8, 1919 at the Cornwallis Theatre, Calcutta. |
| 9/13/1990 | An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka. |
| 6/13/1909 | E. M. S. Namboodiripad was born in Palghat in Kerala. |
| 2/10/1944 | Japanese troops take the Ngakyedauk Pass, cutting off the 7th Indian Division at Sinzweya, Burma. |
| 4/28/1701 | John Norris of Britain met Aurangjeb at Parnela in South India. |
| 8/5/1981 | Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J). |
| 2/6/1932 | Veena Das, revolutionary freedom fighter, shot Stenly Jackson, Governor of Calcutta at the convocation ceremony of B.A. degree, but Jackson was afraid and bend down, thus the aim was missed. |
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