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Historical Event on 1/23/1909

New direct 7,000-mile telegraphic link with India is hailed as a great achievement at London.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/16/1905A decision to boycott British goods was taken at Bagarhat.
5/8/1962Ravindra Bharti University established in West Bengal.
12/12/1921Gandhi organizes a complete boycott of Prince of Wales's visit to Allahabad.
2/8/1999Gen. K. Sundarji (69), former Chief of Army Staff, died in New Delhi.
6/12/1997Jain hawala case dropped against former ministers Kamal Nath, B.D. Dhakne, Chand Ram and Bhuta Singh.
5/23/1924Venkatraman Narayan Swamy, cricketer (one Test v NZ in 1955, DNB, 0-45), was born in Calicut.
1/30/1999Paes-Bhupathi stumbled in the doubles final losing to Patrick Rafter-Jonas Bjorkman in the Australian Open Tennis tournament.
6/29/1909Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born.
7/28/1994Sudhakarrao Naik, G. Ramanujam and O. N. Srivastava appointed Governors.
6/12/2000The Government appointed S. K. Mahajan of Delhi High Court as the chairman of the one-man tribunal to adjudicate whether or not there was sufficient cause for declaring LTTE as unlawful.