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Historical Event on 3/17/1943
Indian troops retreat from Rathedaung to Buthidaung in the face of a renewed Japanese offensive on the Arakan front in Burma.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/19/1992 | M. Veerappa Moily selected to become the new CM of Karnataka. |
| 5/18/1995 | Criminal Law (Amendment Bill, 1995) introduced in Parliament to replace the 10-year-old controversial TADA Act. |
| 7/20/1969 | M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India. |
| 2/23/1952 | Employees Provident Fund Bill and Miscellaneous Provision Act passed in the Lok Sabha. |
| 9/15/1965 | President Ayub Khan appeals to the US to use its influence to end Indian-Pakistani hostilities. |
| 2/11/1913 | Surendranath Dwivedi, educationist, politician and writer, was born in Khandasahi (Orissa). |
| 4/23/1946 | Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, exchanging its Spitfire Vllls for Mk XlVs in October and arriving in Japan aboard HMS vengence. |
| 1/15/1918 | K.C.D. Brahaspati, great poet, playwright and orientalist, was born at Rampur, UP. |
| 9/15/1999 | Palvai Purushottam, the sitting Sirpur MLA and TDP candidate, shot dead. |
| 3/17/1920 | Mujiburr Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara now in Bangladesh. |
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