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Historical Event on 1/17/1989
Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/25/1760 | Lord Clive left India. His successors as Governors of India were J. Holwell and H. Vansittart from July 1760 to 1765. He was re-posted to India on May 3, 1765. |
| 5/19/1953 | State to control production and distribution of minerals involved in atomic energy development. |
| 1/8/1965 | Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History. |
| 12/19/1995 | Unidentified aircraft drops a heap of sophisticated arms and ammunition, including AK-47 rifles, rocket launchers and anti-tank grenades in Purulia district in West Bengal. |
| 10/6/1999 | Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes. |
| 3/12/1992 | A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property. |
| 5/6/1775 | Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested. |
| 11/21/1961 | Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef |
| 5/17/1996 | Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), passed away. |
| 4/30/1991 | BJP election manifesto promises Presidential form of government. |
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