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Historical Event on 1/17/1989

Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/6/1998V. V. S. Laxman scores 301* for Hyderabad against Bihar.
5/21/1998India declares a moratorium on nuclear testing.
1/8/1999Farah Khan made it a double, adding the National ladies snooker title in Delhi.
11/3/1900Sagarmal Gopa, freedom fighter, was born.
9/22/1979Israel conducts nuclear test at Indian Ocean.
3/13/1989The first straw fired thermal power plant was laid in Jakhari village of Punjab.
3/19/1999The banned Maoist Communist Centre kills 34 Bhumihars at Senari village in Jehanabad district in Bihar.
3/7/1952Parmahansa Yogananda, great saint, social reformer and writer, died at Los Angles.
6/14/1947Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.
9/14/1919Nyalchand Shah, bowled 64-33-97-3 in the Test between India vs Pakistan, was born at Dhragandhara in Gujarat.