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Historical Event on 7/17/1935
Dr. Ram Babu Gupta, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1986-89, was born at Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/17/1756 | Nawab Sira-ud-Daulah attacked on Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21. |
| 7/7/1896 | The premier show of the 'Marvel of the Century', first cinema show India, arranged by the Representatives of French Lumiere brothers- Louis and August Lumiere, was held at Watson Hotel in Bombay. The regular shows, however, started from July 14, 1896 at the Novelty Theatre. This show advertisment appeared in the 'Times of India', carrying details of a film show to be held for the first time on Indian soil. |
| 2/25/1993 | 113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action. |
| 1/23/1927 | Balasaheb Thackrey, Shiv Sena chief and Hindu Hriday Samrat, was born. |
| 1/22/1990 | The International Literacy Campaign was launced in the country by the Prime Minister at a national function held at New Delhi. (8-9-90). |
| 3/26/1997 | Russia agrees to help India in developing a state-of-the-art integrated air defence system, even as the two agree to carry military cooperation into the 21st century during the visit of Prime Minister Deve Gowda. |
| 8/1/1995 | Vohra Panel submits report, highlights nexus between mafia and politicians. |
| 11/9/1904 | Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani |
| 5/9/1907 | Two thousand dacoits riot in eastern Bengal. |
| 3/3/1919 | Hari Narayan Apte, famous Marathi novelist, passed away. |
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