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Historical Event on 2/17/1907
Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/12/1993 | Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 2/10/1921 | Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated Kashi Vidya Peeth. |
| 2/1/1901 | Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded. |
| 11/14/1993 | Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian and social worker, passed away. |
| 12/6/1892 | Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, was born at Madurai. |
| 1/6/1832 | Publication of 'Darpan' magazine started. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 4/12/1752 | Agreement to save the king between Shinde and Holkar. |
| 1/18/1938 | The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail. |
| 6/23/1946 | Gandhiji advises Congress not to enter Interim Government, but only Constituent Assembly. |
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