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Historical Event on 9/17/1997
Advance railway reservation period extended from 30 to 60 days w.e.f. February 01, 1998.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1993 | Nirubhai Desai, freedom fighter, veteran journalist and socialist, passed away. |
| 11/22/1915 | Mohandas Gandhi returns to India. |
| 6/19/1981 | APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes. |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 11/11/1866 | Patthe Bapurao (Shridhar Krishna Kulkarni), famous poet Shahir, was born. |
| 3/5/1989 | Baba Prithvisingh, founder of Labour Party, passed away. |
| 5/11/1995 | In central Kashmir, militants burnt the Charar-e-Sherif shrine (the tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Noorudin Noorani) built in 1460 by Zain-ul- Abidin. |
| 4/22/1923 | Babani Sheshagiri Pai, social worker and journalist, was born at Ankola in Karnataka. |
| 3/19/1939 | Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian bat 112 on debut v England 1959), was born in Hyderabad. |
| 4/21/1998 | The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated. |
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