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Historical Event on 6/17/1903

Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/29/1936Zubin Mehta, famous music conductor (NY Philharmonic), was born in Bombay, India.
7/11/1973India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds.
12/8/1911Gaandhiji invites Gokhale to South Africa.
2/6/1998V. V. S. Laxman scores 301* for Hyderabad against Bihar.
7/18/1908Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.
6/6/2000Abhijit Kunte wins the National `A' chess championship at Mumbai.
9/11/1893Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the World's Religions, the first ever inter-faith gathering, dramatically enlightening Western opinion to the depth of Hindu philosophy and culture. He spoke for the first time in Chicago.
1/26/1950India is proclaimed a Sovereign Democratic Republic ceasing to be a British dominion and adopted Indian Constitution which came into force.
11/29/1644The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith.
8/7/1980Mother Teresa visits the poor in Bronx at New York.