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Historical Event on 10/17/1996
President's rule reimposed in U.P.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1990 | Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu 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. |
| 4/28/1701 | John Norris of Britain met Aurangjeb at Parnela in South India. |
| 1/17/1981 | Central Government offers full statehood to Mizoram. |
| 3/10/2000 | Nirmal Verma, distinguished Hindi writer, and eminent Punjabi novelist Gurchal Singh selected jointly for the 35th Jnanpith Award for 1999. |
| 12/23/1995 | 400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana. |
| 2/3/1969 | Thiru Conjeevaram Natrajan Annadurai ""Anna"", a great patriot, writer, editor, orator, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and the commencer of Dravid Movement, passed away. He was the key person in formation of Anna Dramuk Party. |
| 6/13/1889 | Salarjung, famous administrator, was born. |
| 6/12/1952 | J&K Assembly decided to terminate hereditary monarchy. |
| 12/15/1803 | East India Company captured Orrisa state. |
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