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Historical Event on 1/17/1987

Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/17/1987Sikh Guru Har Govindji, the sixth sikh guru, was born. He fashioned a military role for the Sikhs.
1/17/1987Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
3/8/1995Dr. Duranand Kanhan Pillai, great litterateur of Malyali language, died.
1/23/1664Shahaji Raje died in an accident.
9/1/1988Fatte Singrao Gaekwad of Baroda, former Member of Parliament, passed away.
9/1/1989Yasser Arafat chosen for the 1988 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.
1/19/1982Bombay High Court finds allegations against Chief Minister A. R. Antulay justified. Antulay resigns.
3/24/1993Six of Memon family escape to Karachi.
11/19/1999New Governors for Bihar, West Bengal, Goa, Manipur and Punjab are named by the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
7/15/1979Morarji Desai resigns as PM. Jagjivan Ram elected Janata Parliamentary party leader.