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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 |
| 2/21/1973 | V. R. Sonalkar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 31-07-1974. |
| 11/15/1913 | Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15) |
| 5/30/1950 | Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away. |
| 9/20/1996 | Arunachal Chief Minister Apang resigns and forms new party Arunachal Congress. |
| 12/23/1964 | India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed. |
| 2/11/1979 | Cellular Jail, which is situated at Andaman Nikobar Islands, was declared as a National Memorial. |
| 4/4/1938 | A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself. |
| 4/15/1946 | The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was erected near a village named Kangla Tongbi at Mile 8 on the Imphal - Dimapur road. It was originally erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone. |
| 10/10/1954 | First 'President Award' was awarded to film 'Shyamchi Aai'. |
| 2/20/1999 | India and Pakistan signed a formal agreement for launching the Delhi-Lahore bus service. |
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