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Historical Event on 2/17/1998
Delhi-Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy super-league match in Chennai was abandoned owing to pitch tampering.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1851 | Publication of Marathi newspaper 'Gyanoday'. |
| 12/4/1888 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born. |
| 7/15/1948 | Establishment of 'PEPS' (Patiyala and East Punjab States Union). |
| 1/31/1996 | Asia's first Sports University inaugurated in Pune. |
| 4/12/1967 | Judge Kailas Nath Wanchoo became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 24/02/1968. |
| 9/9/1947 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great philosopher, linguist, art historian, painter and critic, died at Needham, Boston. |
| 4/20/1989 | Launching of IRBM `Agni' fails. |
| 11/13/1970 | Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed. |
| 7/22/1702 | The ""English Company of Merchants"" and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies"". In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company. |
| 1/3/1923 | Madhukar Arnalkar, famous Marathi writer, was born. |
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