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Historical Event on 10/17/1994

Seshan's controversial biography ''DMK'' obtains stay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/16/1992The Parliament adopts resolution condemning the demolition of the mosque at Ayodhya and centre appoints a one-man judicial commission to enquire into the Ayodhya incidents.
3/5/1931Mahatma Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign a pact referred in Indian History as ""Gandhi-Irwin Pact"", after which the civic disobedience movement was taken back.
3/5/1931Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398.
9/7/1998Prof. K. M. Chandy, Congress (I) leader and former Governor of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, died in Kochi at the age of 77.
11/5/1929Narottam Morarjee, great social reformer and the architect of the modern Indian Shipping, died.
11/15/2000India cancels cricket series with Pakistan in January next on account of Islamabad's ''hostile propaganda''.
4/12/1983Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' wins 8 Oscars.
2/7/1983Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta .
11/20/1859Elfinstone, Governor of Bombay Province and historian, passed away.
11/7/1966Riots over slaughtered cow claims seven lives.