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Historical Event on 8/17/1780

Indian Governor General Warren Hastings duel with Francis to settle personal and official quarrels. Francis was wounded but survived.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/11/1893First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra.
11/13/1998Tendulkar blazes as India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah beating Zimbabwe in the final.
3/17/1909Pandit Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, educationist and internationally famed Sanskrit scholar, was born at Satara, Maharashtra.
4/16/1976The govt. announces its new birth-control program to curb population growth.
2/28/1937Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit.
8/4/1967World's longest and highest Dam 'Nagarjun Sagar' made by Masonary System was inaugrated.
11/8/1965British Indian Ocean Territory formed.
1/29/1780Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
2/9/1994Supreme Court sets aside disqualification (under anti-defection law in 1991) of former Goa CM Ravi Naik.
12/1/1963Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union.