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Historical Event on 8/17/1911

Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1992Seperate secretariat was established for primary education.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
11/6/1997Supreme Court acquits former Union Minister for Power and Food Kalpanath Rai held under TADA for alleged harbouring of an accused in ""1992 Bombay J.J. Hospital shootout case'
4/26/1995SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA).
11/14/1959Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone.
4/24/1942Shri Dinanath Mangeshkar, famous Marathi singer, nationalist, musician and actor, passed away at the age of 41.
5/18/1775Warren Hastings expressed doubt of hanging Nandkumar.
7/23/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow.
10/2/1971Gandhi Sadan was handed over to the nation.
3/26/1992Rs. 245 crore relief in customs, excise duties announced.