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Historical Event on 8/17/1916

Amritlal Naagar was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/7/1998Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India.
12/15/1965Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river.
12/28/1995Third Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1C), carring advanced remote sensing cameras was launched by Russian Molniya launch vehicle. It is still in service.
9/21/1962Major General I. J. Rikhye completed the task in accordance with the memorandum to UNSF, thus fulfilling the mandate of cessation of hostilities without any incident.
3/7/1942Umesh Narayan Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in four Tests 1967-68), was born in Alibaug, Maharashtra.
6/8/1992Assets of 31 persons including Harshad Mehta attached.
6/2/1993Kurla-Kochi Express rams into goods train near Jolarpet in which 22 were killed and 100 injured.
8/25/1969Vivek Upendra Krishna Razdan, cricket pace bowler (Indian Test 1989-90), was born in Delhi.
7/29/1993Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha.
6/21/1930Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob.