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Historical Event on 1/23/1999

An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1821Daily newspaper 'Mumbai Samachar' was published.
4/17/1977Swatantra Party was merged in Janata Party.
6/1/1930First Indian luxurious fast train 'Deccan Queen' started from Victoria Terminus (CST) to Pune.
12/21/1993JPC indicts RBI and Finance Ministry in the multi-crore security scam.
11/15/1913Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15)
2/28/1937Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit.
5/11/1993Toy factory fire kills over 200 people in Bangalore.
5/11/1993Vasco De Gama departed with his fleet from Lisbon Harbour for a trip to India .
5/23/1965Venkat Woorkeri Raman, cricketer (Indian slow left-arm all-rounder), was born.
11/16/199160 percent of the 23 million voters exercise their franchise in the by-elections to 15 Lok Sahba and 56 Assembly seats in 14 states.