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Historical Event on 5/17/1897
Dhirendra Varma, famous linguist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/18/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, constitutes a Group of Ministers to review the national security system in its entirety in the light of the recommendations of the Kargil review committee. |
| 7/6/1939 | Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore. |
| 3/10/1922 | Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati. |
| 9/16/1916 | D. R. Samant, journalist and social reformer, was born at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. |
| 10/2/1944 | Gandhiji was presented a purse of Rs 110 lakhs (£ 8,25,000) for Kasturba Memorial on his 75th birthday. |
| 11/24/1991 | Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections. |
| 7/12/1896 | Dangambarrao G. Bindu, politician and father of Hydrabad Liberation Party, was born. |
| 6/17/1839 | Lord William Bentik, governor general of India, was born. |
| 8/4/1894 | Narayan Sitaram Phadke, famous Hindi writer, was born at Karjat. |
| 4/21/1938 | Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet, passed away. |
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