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Historical Event on 1/17/1987
Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/1/1855 | East India Railways were held for formal inauguration; Howrah station was opened. |
| 7/7/1937 | Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta. |
| 8/3/1998 | India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea. |
| 8/10/1927 | Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, first Indian astronomer, litterateur and Urdu poet, was born at Madras. |
| 7/15/1991 | Jagannathrao Joshi, veteran leader of Janata Party `Karnataka Kesri', died. |
| 9/14/1868 | Swami Virjanand, Sanskrit grammar litterateur and master, passed away at the age of 90. |
| 4/27/2000 | Arun Bharat Ram takes over as the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry. |
| 4/27/2000 | Akbar captured Ahmednagar. |
| 3/23/1942 | Japanese forces occupy Rangoon, Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean. |
| 9/28/1993 | Gas pipe below Karakas National Highway exploded claiming 58 lives. |
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