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Historical Event on 3/17/1997

Cochin Stock Exchange goes online.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1871Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent.
3/9/1931The Tories decide not to attend future round table talks on India in London.
8/2/1993CEC Seshan postpones all elections including by-elections to December in protest against the government's attempt to subjugate the Commission.
4/22/1915Hem Barua, famous Assami and English litterateur, was born.
4/27/1878Calcutta University started Women's Education, and allowed women to appear in the Entrance Examination.
12/31/1900Krishna Narayan Ratanjankar, famous musician and writer of Tan Sangrah in three parts and Abhinav Geet Mangari, was born in Bombay.
7/23/2000Ram Jethmalani, Union Law Minister, quits the Cabinet after the Prime Minister shows him the door following the outbursts against the Chief Justice of India, Dr. A. S. Anand.
4/1/1936Orissa state was formed as a province of British India separating from Bihar.
3/22/1977Indira Gandhi-led Indian National Congress party lost the 6th general election of India. She resigned as Pime Minister of India.
9/11/2000A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984).