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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.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/8/1911 | Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic. |
| 12/20/1946 | Gandhiji completes his month-long sojourn at Srirampur. |
| 3/27/1898 | Syed Ahmad Khan, great social reformer, educationist, journalist, leader and one of the most eminent builders of Modern India, passed away at Aligarh. |
| 8/29/1976 | Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh. |
| 7/27/1998 | The Centre announces a hefty hike in the pay scales of university and college teachers. |
| 7/25/1958 | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated. |
| 2/23/1997 | Justice J. S. Verma appointed Chief Justice of India. |
| 6/17/1995 | Motilal Vohra, UP Governor, sets agenda for a two-day special session of the UP Assembly asking the speaker to take up a motion against self first. |
| 5/7/1849 | Bethune College of Calcutta was established in the upper class families and it was started for female education. |
| 9/19/1937 | Vishnu Narayan Matkhande passed away. |
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