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Historical Event on 5/17/1897
Dhirendra Varma, famous linguist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/1954 | Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun. |
| 11/27/1994 | Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 3/7/1956 | A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India. |
| 1/7/1883 | Martyer Sohanlal Pathak was born. |
| 12/21/1911 | Central Bank of India established. |
| 10/2/1934 | Indian Naval Force was established. |
| 4/21/1994 | Malayalam sweeps national film awards. Mammootty, Shobhana best actor and actress; T.V. Chandran best director; Buddadeb Das Gupta's Bengali 'Charachar' adjudged best film. |
| 1/29/1780 | Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta . |
| 9/12/1931 | Triloki Nath Madan, educationist and journalist, was born at Srinagar, Kashmir. |
| 11/29/1996 | Shaleem I. Shervani, Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare and President, ICMR Governing Body, was the Chief Guest at the concluding ceremony of the year long celebrations of the 85th year of ICMR at New Delhi. He released a special issue of the ICMR Bulletin on this occasion and presented momentos to the former Additional Directors-General and Directors-General of the ICMR. |
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