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Historical Event on 8/17/1911
Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/10/1961 | P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'. |
| 9/30/1996 | Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996. |
| 1/1/1874 | The first women magazine ""Bola Bodhini"" was published. |
| 9/19/1995 | PM leaves for a 5-day visit to the two Central Asian republics of Turkmenistan and Kyrghistan. |
| 3/3/1707 | Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First. |
| 5/10/1996 | Congress Chief Ministers of Assam, Haryana & Pondicherry resign. |
| 3/4/1939 | Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, passed away at Philadelphia. |
| 4/8/1997 | Delhi High Court quashes charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy against L.K. Advani (BJP President), and former Union Minister V.C. Shukla in the Jain hawala case. |
| 5/26/1998 | Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation. |
| 11/5/2000 | The Interpol issues a ""look-out'' notice for the five persons and two of their accomplices, who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in December 1999 |
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