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Historical Event on 2/17/1918
S. V. Kumaraswamy, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1961-62, was born at Tamil Nadu.
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| 5/7/1973 | Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died. |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 6/5/1995 | Manmohan Singh re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam. |
| 11/16/1991 | Madhukar Karekar, famous journalist, died |
| 7/25/1991 | Dr. V. K. R. V. Rao, famous economist and former central minister, passed away. |
| 11/15/1817 | Battle of Yerwada. |
| 4/10/1937 | Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away. |
| 1/31/2000 | All seven accused in the Jain hawala case discharged. |
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