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Historical Event on 9/17/1999
Narayan Desai, Ajoy Kumar Basu and Saraswathi Gora are named for Jamnalal Bajaj awards.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/11/1944 | Buddhadev Dasgupta, director (Charachar, Grihajuddha), was born. |
| 10/10/1962 | Indies assault up Chinese positions in north India attack |
| 11/1/1950 | First Indigenous Steam Engine from Chitranjan Rail Factory railed out. |
| 8/25/1994 | Ramdas Nayak, President of BJP Mumbai and former MLA was assassinated at Chembur, Mumbai. He was 52. |
| 4/5/1957 | The first Communist ministry in a state was installed in Kerala. |
| 9/9/1872 | Sarladevi Chaudharani, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 9/20/1856 | Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste. |
| 4/7/1997 | NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi. |
| 1/1/1985 | United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year as the ""International Youth Year""(IYY) with the theme ""Participation, Development and Peace"". |
| 11/5/1920 | Indian Red Cross society was founded in India under Bengal Act VIII. St.John Ambulance Association is a wing of this societywhich directed Improvement of Health, Prevention of Diseases and Mitigation of Suffering activities. |
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