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Historical Event on 2/23/1962

Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/11/1996T. N. Seshan retires. M. S. Gill becomes the new election Chief Election Commissioner.
4/27/1854First telegram was sent between Mumbai and Pune.
7/1/1962Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, died at Allahabad.
1/7/1885Madhav Narayan Joshi, comedy drama writer, was born.
4/12/1801Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab.
4/10/1996The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt.
4/2/1948Communist leader S.A. Dange arrested in Bombay.
4/7/1998Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India.
9/21/1994Ramkrishna Bajaj, freedom fighter and veteran industrialist, passed away.
1/18/2000India and the US resume talks to narrow their differences on the CTBT.