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Historical Event on 10/17/1940

Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/5/2000Rachita Mistry breaks P.T. Usha's long-standing record in 100m (11.39s) clocking 11.26s in the National circuit meet in Bangalore.
6/9/1992LDF wrests Narakal while the UDF retains the Tanur assembly seat in Kerala.
5/21/1994The Union Government imposes blanket ban on capitation fee for admission to private professional colleges.
4/18/1926Padmakar Ganesh Chitle, famous Marathi novelist, was born.
9/9/1947Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great philosopher, linguist, art historian, painter and critic, died at Needham, Boston.
5/12/1992Security scandal, RBI extends probe to four foreign banks.
11/22/1990Laloo Prasad Yadav, Bihar CM, wins confidence motion (202-108).
8/5/1992The Supreme Court appoints a 3-member panel to visit Ayodhya and report on the new structures there.
2/2/1978Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, the first receipent of ""Gyanpeeth Puraskar (Award)"", and many other awards, passed away.
3/8/1948Air India International was established for overseas services.