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Historical Event on 1/23/1809

Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Khinda village in the north of Sambalpur at Orissa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1928Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, cricket all-rounder who played the only test vs Pakistan, was born in Nagpur.
1/8/2000Abhin Shyam Gupta and B.R. Meenakshi win the NSCI Grand Prix all India badminton tournament in Mumbai.
12/19/2000The Government suffers an embarrassing defeat with the Rajya Sabha adopting a motion recording its ""disagreement'' with the Prime Minister for defending three of his Cabinet colleagues charged in the Babri Masjid demolition case.
11/5/1870Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta.
12/19/1917Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born.
6/25/2000India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur.
10/19/1921Pandurangshastri Athvle, founder of 'Swadhyay Pariwar', was born.
8/8/2000The Government appoints Air Marshal P. Rajkumar to head the court of enquiry to probe the Alliance Air crash near Patna.
1/21/1994India and Myanmar decide to open border trade.
2/22/1958Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government.