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Historical Event on 11/17/1994

Dr. Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet, wins Saraswati Samman.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/21/1969Bhilai Steel Plant creates a new world record in steel-making by producing 'one heat' in four hours three minutes.
3/29/1914Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram came in India.
1/22/1980Bal Ram Jakhar elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
8/4/1933Gandhi is imprisoned for one year for breaking a restraint order.
7/7/1937Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta.
2/25/1962India Congress Party wins elections.
9/12/1912T. A. Ramachandran, cricket Test Umpire of one test during 1948-49, was born in Tamil Nadu.
4/3/1984Soyuz T-11 carried three cosmonauts along with the first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma to Salyut 7.
5/1/199560 killed as Madras-Kanyakumari Express collides with a goods train at Danishpet.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).