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Historical Event on 6/17/1903
Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/5/1992 | Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar. |
| 10/1/1993 | Two more Election Commissioners appointed. |
| 4/19/1995 | Rajendra Kumari Bajpai appointed the Lt. Governor of Pondichery. |
| 12/15/1997 | Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University. |
| 5/1/1994 | Six leading Akali factions dissolved to form a new party, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Amritsar, which wanted a 'Sikh State'. |
| 4/22/1983 | Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85. |
| 12/3/1971 | Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies. |
| 9/3/2000 | National Cricket Academy (NCA) wins the MRF Buchi Babu Cricket tournament in Chennai. |
| 1/21/1908 | Gandhiji agrees to settlement on basis of voluntary registration, if Registration Act is repealed. |
| 12/17/1830 | Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, died. |
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