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Historical Event on 1/17/1922

T. A. Pai, former Central Minister and bank expert, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/24/1987First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.
4/24/1993IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar.
1/17/1989Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.
4/3/1988Rajiv Gandhi seals the border between Punjab and Pakistan.
5/21/1855Rani Rasmoni was consecrated at Bhabatarini Kali Temple of Dakhineswar.
2/12/1882Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born.
4/15/1947The new Indian Parliament appeals for non-violence.
8/3/1993Bill to regulate cable TV introduced in Rajya Sabha.
8/3/1998India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea.
1/8/1965Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History.