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Historical Event on 3/17/1997

A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/23/1958Marathwada University was started.
4/8/1946HMS Vengeance, sailed with 22 aircraft of No. 4 Sqn, halted at Singapore for re-fueling and set course for Iwakuni, a port of Kyushu island.
8/15/1997K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.
11/19/1977Cyclone hits Andhra Pradesh causing flooding and tidal waves and killing 10,000.
3/29/1942Britain offered dominion status to India after the war if it cooperated now.
8/15/1990GOI declares Prophet Mohammed's birthday a national holiday.
2/11/2001Objective type paper scheduled in 28 cities in India.
12/9/1977Ravishankar Mahashankar Rawal, famous painter, passed away.
2/10/1979Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
3/3/1859A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.