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Historical Event on 9/17/1929
La Fontaine, Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM and AVSM, VM, was born in Madras.
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| 4/17/1923 | Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India. |
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| 5/14/1960 | The first plane of India flew upto New York. |
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| 10/27/1969 | Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab. |
| 2/2/1862 | Pandit Shambhunath was the first Indian to become Judge of Indian High Court. |
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