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Historical Event on 1/17/1989

Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/10/1955Prakash Padukone, internationally famous Badminton player, was born.
2/18/199247 die in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam Mahamakham stampede.
5/20/1972Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta.
5/25/1995Voting on the Criminal Law Bill differed again in Rajya Sabha.
8/25/1960Olympics opened at Rome.
3/22/1977Janata and its allies gain absolute majority in Lok Sabha.
8/15/1997K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.
9/17/1899First British troops leave Bombay for South Africa.
9/9/1872Sarladevi Chaudharani, Bengali poet, was born.
1/2/1994India and Pakistan resume talks after a gap of 16 months.