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Historical Event on 2/23/1962
Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/10/1897 | Wildemar 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. |
| 2/18/1992 | Sikh extremists murder 17 people in Punjab. |
| 1/9/1995 | T.N. Seshan, chief election commissioner, asks Centre to put off annual budget in lieu of State assembly elections. |
| 12/31/1996 | Gold import policy liberalised. |
| 1/6/1932 | Kamleshwar, famous Hindi writer, was born. |
| 12/12/1971 | Sadik Gulam Muhammad, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, died. |
| 2/22/1873 | Sir Muhammad Ekbal, writer of song 'Sare Jahanse Achha', was born. |
| 2/9/1942 | Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India. |
| 4/30/1981 | C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 08-02-1985. |
| 4/5/1944 | 221 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. |
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