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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
3/17/1882Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern Marathi language, passed away.
1/22/1965Plutonium Project (Sanyantra) was inaugurated at Trombay, Mumbai.
12/10/1993Kerala Congress(M) splits; Four MLAs, including Minister T.M.Jacob, expelled.
4/2/1954Nehru calls for a halt to the build up of nuclear weapons.
1/7/1994Malhotra Committee recommends privatisation and foreign participation of LIC and GIC.
8/15/1997K.Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open Chess tournament.
9/3/1997Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court directs the state government to pay an ex-gratia of Rs. 50,000 to the family of a college student, who had committed suicide following ragging in the hostel.
1/22/1858Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was sentenced to death.
8/2/1987Geet Sethi retains the World Amateur Billiards title.
8/29/1993Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will.