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Historical Event on 7/17/1893
Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.
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| 1/27/1984 | First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam. |
| 5/19/1904 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
| 4/27/1920 | Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian leader and Magssese Awardee, was born. |
| 8/19/1996 | Gujarat's expelled BJP leader Shankersingh Waghela forms a new party called 'Rashtriya Janata Party'. |
| 5/4/1959 | Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China. |
| 10/5/1990 | Dr. Rajkumar Varma, famous Hindi journalist and playwright, died. |
| 10/11/1737 | A violent earthquake and cyclone hit Calcutta which claimed 3,00,000 lives. |
| 3/15/1831 | First Marathi Almanac (Panchang) started by Ganpat Krishnaji. |
| 4/20/1887 | Padmabhushan Jemini Roy, famous painter, was born. |
| 10/2/1994 | Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary. |
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