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Historical Event on 7/17/1893
Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/14/1978 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away. |
| 10/11/1902 | Loknayak Jayprakash Harsudayal Narayan, veteran socialist leader, was born at Sitabdiara village (border of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar) in Bihar. He was awarded Bharat Ratna on Dec. 23, 1998 and played a key role in formation of Janta Party which defeated Indian National Congress for the first time. |
| 6/20/1992 | The JD and the NF choose former Lok Sabha Dy Speaker Prof. G. G. Swell as the Presidential candidate. |
| 3/19/1936 | Satydev Dubey, stage artist, was born. |
| 11/16/1713 | Chhatrapati Shahu appointed Balaji Vishwanath, a very remarkable man in Maratha history, as 'Peshwa'. |
| 11/6/2000 | Buddhadev Bhattacharya assumes office as West Bengal Chief Minister. |
| 4/3/1914 | Sam Hormuj Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, India's first Field Marshal, was born. He was better known as ""Sam Manekshaw"". |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 2/19/1993 | SC Jamir elected leader of the Congress (I) Legislature Party in Nagaland. |
| 7/1/1906 | Pulavar Kulandai, great author and poet, was born at Bhavani. |
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