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Historical Event on 1/17/1993
LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/17/1993 | Akbar responded with alacrity and arrived at Ahmadabad and made adequate arrangements for its administration. |
| 11/16/1883 | Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and journalist, was born at Varanasi. |
| 1/8/1993 | FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500. |
| 4/19/1910 | Anant Laxman Kanhere, revolutionary, was hanged. |
| 12/22/2000 | Three Army jawans die in an attack by a suicide squad of Lakshar-e-Taiba at the Red Fort in Delhi leading to a 45-minute gun-battle. |
| 7/12/1823 | First Indian Steam Engine Ship ""Diana-a-Gunboat""sailed in a sea near Calcutta. It was built by Kyd & Co. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 7/6/1993 | 39 people were killed and three officials abducted in J&K . |
| 12/17/1970 | Judge Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 21/01/1971. |
| 10/19/1875 | The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic. |
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