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Historical Event on 6/17/1913
Waman Vasudev Chitle (Bal Chitle), Marathi story writer and editor, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/28/1962 | K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died. |
| 3/27/1989 | T. N. Seshan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 23-12-1989. |
| 9/26/1820 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal. |
| 5/22/1936 | Lord Brabourne laid the foundation stone of Brabourne Stadium in Bombay. |
| 4/2/1991 | Asom Gana Parishad splits. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 3/1/1971 | General Election ( 5th) of India begins. |
| 5/27/1962 | Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri, cricketer (Indian SLA all-rounder 1981-92), was born in Bombay. |
| 1/3/1952 | India adopted birth control program with aid of U.N. World Health Organization. |
| 2/24/1957 | General Election ( 2nd) of India begins. |
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