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Historical Event on 9/17/1997
Kalpakkam Mini Reactor (KAMINI), the only U-233 fuelled operating reactor in the world, attains maximum capacity of 30 KW.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/29/1893 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta. |
| 5/18/1974 | First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb. |
| 6/1/1996 | H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in. |
| 5/8/1992 | Eighth Plan outlay increased to Rs. 7,98,000 crores; Public Sector outlay goes up to 45\%. |
| 2/20/1928 | Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born. |
| 1/2/1991 | Thiruvananthapuram airport declared India's fifth International Airport. |
| 12/23/1972 | Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi. |
| 4/10/1880 | C.Y. Chintamani, renowned journalist, was born. |
| 10/25/1951 | First General Election of India begins. |
| 6/3/1844 | Balkrishna Bhatt, essay writer, critic and journalist in Hindi, was born. |
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