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Historical Event on 2/17/1883
Vasudeo Balvant Phadke, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away in prison at Aden.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/28/1965 | Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad, India kills 400. |
| 11/8/1932 | Sankhla Badluram, great industrialist, was born in Delhi. |
| 12/11/1990 | T. N. Seshan appointed CEC, and Mohan Dharia Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. |
| 1/3/1952 | India adopted birth control program with aid of U.N. World Health Organization. |
| 5/17/1996 | Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), passed away. |
| 4/16/1918 | Spike Milligan, famous actor and comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers), was born in India. |
| 12/20/1957 | Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' is declared the best film at the San Francisco Film Festival. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
| 12/12/1971 | Sadik Gulam Muhammad, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, died. |
| 9/8/1911 | Anand Gopal Sheorey, great Hindi writer, litterateur and journalist, was born at Sausar in Madhya Pradesh. |
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