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Historical Event on 1/17/1987
Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/9/1998 | Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days. |
| 3/1/2000 | P.Harikrishna becomes India's youngest International Master in the Sangli International chess tournament. |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
| 8/7/1941 | Rabindranath Devendranath Tagore ""Gurudev"", great Indian poet, voluminous playwright, Noble Laureate, social reformer, freedom fighter, painter and philosopher, passed away at Calcutta at the age on 80 years. He will be always remembered for the national song ""Jana Gana Mana"" and as a founder of Vishwa Bharati, Shantiniketen, etc. |
| 4/14/1989 | Ranjan Roy, captain of Indian Navy, and his wife Rupali Roy started off in a Maruti car. |
| 12/1/1965 | Border Security Force was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the International Border with Pakistan. |
| 4/15/1946 | The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was erected near a village named Kangla Tongbi at Mile 8 on the Imphal - Dimapur road. It was originally erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone. |
| 9/12/1932 | Vijaya Shriniwas Jahagirdas, famous Marathi story writer and poet, was born. |
| 6/5/1992 | Hindi weelky of Indian Express Group 'Screen' published. |
| 7/22/1998 | Sahib Singh Verma, Delhi Chief Minister, and BJP vice-president K. L. Sharma are fined Rs. 100 each for riding a motorcycle without helmet in New Delhi. |
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