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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
7/10/1994Ramrao Raghoba Rane, Paramveer Chakra awardee, died.
5/10/1981The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay).
3/16/1999The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.
1/8/1947Rajasthan University established at Jaipur.
5/2/195340 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers.
2/24/1957General Election ( 2nd) of India begins.
10/27/1926Padmanabh Govind Joshi alias ""Nana"" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper during 1950's was born in Bar
3/18/1916Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay.
2/14/1994V. P. Singh elected JD Chief in place of S.R. Bommai who stepped down.
2/3/1929The ""Times of India Illustrated Weekly"" was renamed as ""The Illustrated Weekly of India"".