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Historical Event on 9/17/1899
First British troops leave Bombay for South Africa.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/22/1980 | Bal Ram Jakhar elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 3/29/1977 | S. N. Mathur became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 02/05/77). |
| 10/5/1997 | Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country. |
| 9/9/1872 | Sarladevi Chaudharani, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 4/23/1928 | Narasimha Murtey, educationist, was born at Nandur, A.P. |
| 7/10/1965 | First NCC (National Cadet Corps) College for training girls started at Gwalior. |
| 12/3/1971 | Third Pakistani aggression begins with air attacks on airports in the western sector; emergency declared. |
| 5/15/1993 | K.M. Cariappa, field marshal and Major General, passed away at the age of 93. |
| 6/8/1915 | P.C.Kuttikrishnan 'Urub', Malyalam story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 2/25/1897 | Dr. Amarnath Jha, educationist, was born. |
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