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Historical Event on 6/17/1839

Lord William Bentik, governor general of India, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/8/1948Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow, saintly scientist and nobel prize winner, passed away at Pearl River, New York.
3/19/1954The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea.
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
11/18/1974Telex Service started between India and Pakistan.
10/17/19037th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
3/2/1957Central Warehouse Corporation established.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
1/23/1993British PM John Major arrives in India on an official visit.
10/25/1990Captain Sangma, first Chief Minister of Meghalaya, died.
1/24/1951Nehru assails US. demand for UN to name Peking as aggressor in Korea, New Delhi.



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