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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
11/25/1992Mamata Banerjee, Union Minister of State for Sports, resigns to fight Bengal CPM.
2/5/1922Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc.
3/13/1992Indumati Ramkrishna Shevde, famous writer, critic and painter, passed away.
2/12/1985Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people.
4/10/1935Vasudevaru Kesavaru (K.V. Manalikkera), famous writer and poet, was born at Madras.
11/28/1990Union Cabinet approves re-induction of Airbus A-320 in the domestic sector.
5/9/1993S. Mulgaokar, 82, journalist, passed away.
2/6/1992The Centre decides to wind up the 7-year-old Food Processing Industry ministry.
1/21/1943Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by British police.
9/10/1858Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born.