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Historical Event on 7/17/1997

K.R. Narayanan,Vice President, wins in the Presidential election with a record margin to become the next head of state.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
3/9/1836Navalram Lakshmiram Pandya, famous writer and Gujrati critic , was born.
8/20/1993Mother Teresa hospitalized for malaria.
11/1/1949Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India.
8/19/1993Sharad Pawar elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council from Pune.
2/12/1996President S.D. Sharma in Kerala.
11/14/1959Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone.
1/28/1902Gandhiji left for Rangoon visit. Stays for a month with Gokhale at Calcutta. Returns to Rajkot and settles down to practise.
8/7/1980Mother Teresa visits the poor in Bronx at New York.
5/3/1927Riots between Sikhs and Muslims in Lahore claims 14 lives and leaves 100 injured.