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Historical Event on 3/17/1997
A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/21/1959 | Press Club of India was founded in New Delhi. |
| 2/12/1949 | Gundappa Ranganath Viswanath, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman of 70s), was born in Bhadravati, Mysore. He received Padmashree (1971) and Arjun Award (1978). |
| 4/23/1795 | East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges. |
| 10/10/1954 | First 'President Award' was awarded to film 'Shyamchi Aai'. |
| 7/26/1956 | Godavarish Mishra, famous Oriya poet, playwright and essay writer, died. |
| 5/19/1908 | Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born. |
| 12/21/1999 | The Gujarat Government asks the Hindu Jagran March to go-ahead with the 'Shilanyas' for a Ram temple at Halmodi in Surat district. |
| 2/17/1986 | Jiddu Krishnamurti, famous Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness), passed away at the age of 90 yrs at Ojai, California, USA. |
| 10/6/1893 | Meghnad N. Saha, astrophysicist, was born. In 1920, he developed the 'Thermal Ionization Equation', which has remained fundamental in all works on stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source. |
| 7/17/1903 | Joseph, versatile author in Malyalam language and critic Butshshor, was born. |
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