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Historical Event on 6/23/1997

Communication equipment worth several crores destroyed and Chennai's land and mobile telephone networks thrown out of gear in a fire at Anna Road telephone exchange.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/20/1995Supreme Court orders closure of 84 industries in and around Taj Mahal in UP due to pollution.
5/14/1960The first plane of India flew upto New York.
9/18/1997President K.R. Narayanan inaugurates Mammen Mappillai Hall at Kottayam, Kerala.
2/18/1665The Portuguese handover Mumbai island to England.
11/1/1902Alwar Iyengar Jaggu, famous Hindi writer and professor, was born at Chatra Ghosham.
9/20/1996Arunachal Chief Minister Apang resigns and forms new party Arunachal Congress.
7/27/1949Agreement reached on the ceasefire line in Kashmir.
6/15/1899Roy Chowdhury Devipasad, modern Indian sculptor and painter, was born.
2/24/1988Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
10/2/1910Frank C. Brown, educationist and social worker, was born.