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Historical Event on 9/17/1997

Kalpakkam Mini Reactor (KAMINI), the only U-233 fuelled operating reactor in the world, attains maximum capacity of 30 KW.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1993Nirubhai Desai, freedom fighter, veteran journalist and socialist, passed away.
1/5/1994Jnanpith Award was given to U. R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada).
5/13/1956Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore.
7/11/1630Rezabeebeth Sookeas Begum passed away.
7/17/200055 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport.
2/6/1954Kashmir Assembly accepts re-unification with India.
10/30/1994Swaran Singh, 87, former External Affairs minister, died.
2/28/1928C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'.
9/5/1967Central Hindi Committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister.
2/14/199813 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.