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Historical Event on 2/17/1931
Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".

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11/14/1955	Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President.
6/27/1998	Mr. Nikhil Chakravartty, journalist and chairman of Prasar Bharati, dies in New Delhi at 84.
9/20/1998	A. B. Bardhan is re-elected CPI general secretary.
7/1/1952	Olympic Games open at Helsinki.
7/11/1994	Delhi IG (prisons) Kiran Bedi wins Magsaysay Award for public service.
6/1/1945	Tata Fundamental Research Institute was established.
11/21/1993	R.F. Botha, Foreign Minister, moots a grouping of Indian Ocean countries.
4/18/1959	Premier Chou En-lai insists Tibetan Dalai Lama was abducted to India.
6/17/1917	Krishan Kumar Chopra, medical practitioner and social worker, was born at Lahore.
1/24/1997	Public holiday in connection with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose birth centenary.

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