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Historical Event on 2/17/1883

Vasudeo Balvant Phadke, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away in prison at Aden.

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12/3/1991Lok Sabha question hour telecast at 7.15 a.m for the first time .
9/1/1998Leaded petrol is banned in Delhi.
5/22/1993Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections.
10/26/1961Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
6/20/1911Dattatray Purushottam Karmarkar, veteran freedom fighter and former cabinet minister, died.
9/26/1999Six selected for Shanti Swaroop award for Science.
4/1/1995Open General Licence (OGL) list expanded from 43 to 75 as import of consumer goods liberalised.
4/1/1995Portuguese Catholics conquer Goa under Albuquerque, the then Governor, to serve as capital of their Asian maritime empire beginning conquest and exploitation of India by Europeans.
7/19/1998The INSAT-2C satellite suffers ``disorientation'' - loss of earth lock - briefly.
12/12/1930Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods.