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Historical Event on 10/17/1970
Anil Radhakrishna Kumble, cricketer (great Indian leg spinner since 1990), was born in Bangalore.
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| 12/16/2000 | Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu. |
| 8/12/1998 | Uttarancha State plan meets with difficulty owing to differences on inclusion of Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar district. |
| 9/15/1861 | Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family. |
| 8/4/1937 | Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, famous lawyer, philosopher, ancient researcher and eminent historian, died at Patna. |
| 2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
| 1/9/1904 | Pratab Singh Chaudhari, social worker, was born at Multan, Punjab . |
| 7/2/1997 | Screening for Hepatitis C made mandatory all over India. |
| 3/1/1910 | The Dalai Lama is welcomed in Darjeeling. |
| 2/27/1931 | Chandrashekhar Azad of Hindustan Republican Army shot himself to avoid British police arrest at Alfred Park, Allahabad. |
| 12/14/1999 | G.M.C. Balayogi, Lok Sabha speaker, presents a draft for over Rs. 32 lakhs to the Prime Minister for the Kargil Fund. |
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