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Historical Event on 8/17/1932

V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1994At Churchgate railway station on platform No.1, noted film actor A.K. Hangal signalled the start of theatre in a train by waving a green flag.
6/20/1993Harshad Mehta's senior counsel Ram Jethmalani asks JPC to summon the PM and allow cross-examination.
7/11/1630Rezabeebeth Sookeas Begum passed away.
2/27/1999Union Budget presented. Fiscal deficit cut to 4.4 per cent.
2/27/1999Qutubu'd-din Aibak (1206-1210) was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri. He was originally a slave of Turkestan. As he started his career as a slave, the dynasty founded by him in India is known as ""Slave Dynasty"". The construction of Qutabminar was started during his regime. Since he was very generous, the people called him ""Lakh Baksh"".
1/1/1985Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum.
9/22/1937The last contingent of Indian freedom fighters was send to Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
12/12/1908Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire.
11/18/1960Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away.
5/3/1971Dhanjay Ramchandra Gadgil, famous economist, passed away.