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Historical Event on 7/17/1930
Lord Irwin,British Viceroy, allows Indian moderates to visit Gandhi in prison.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/1/1998 | Bharat Ratna is awarded to Dr. A.J.P. Abdul Kalam, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, and Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi, Carnatic musician. The award is also conferred posthumously on film director Satyajit Ray, freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali and former Prime Minister Gulzari Lal Nanda. |
| 4/14/1992 | The 79th Plenary session of the Indian National Congress opens in Tirupati. |
| 2/17/1997 | Anand finishes sixth in the City of Linares category 19 chess where Kasparov makes in four-in-a-row. |
| 12/19/1994 | K. A. P. Vishwanathan, famous Tamil author, passed away. |
| 5/31/1988 | Dwarika Prasad Mishra, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, passed away. |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 10/6/1974 | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great freedom fighter, barrister, leader, politician, nationalist and member of the Lok Sabha, passed away. He resigned as the defence minister soon after the Chinese aggression. |
| 3/21/1939 | Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow. |
| 8/23/1995 | First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta. |
| 8/23/1995 | The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali. |
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