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Historical Event on 2/23/1997

Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/11/1967China and India exchange artillery fire on Sikkim-Tibet border.
3/3/1931Gandhi and Viceroy Irwin sign Delhi Pact giving Indians right to make salt if civil disobedience stops.
7/1/1961Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal.
1/6/1847Saint Tyagaraja, great musician, died.
9/2/1956Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).
8/12/1952Social Welfare Board inaugurated in the Parliament.
7/10/1965First NCC (National Cadet Corps) College for training girls started at Gwalior.
10/5/1868Laxmi Narayan Barua, Assamia novelist, was born.
2/20/1987Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh becomes the 23rd and 24th states of Indian Union.
1/12/1757Captain Eyre Coote from the Portuguese was captured in Bandel.