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Historical Event on 3/17/1910

Smt. Anutai Wagh, great social worker, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/2/1679Aurangzeb reimposed Jizya Tax to finance the spread of Islam on the Hindus.This Jeziya tax was abolished by Akbar.
2/12/1990The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved.
4/2/1980S. S. Grewal was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-04-1981.
5/6/1944Mahatma Gandhi was released unconditionally from his last imprisonment from Aga Khan Palace at Pune.
9/6/2000Telecom workers launch a nation-wide strike in protest against inadequate safeguards prior to the corporatisation of the department from October 1.
2/6/1996Supreme Court upholds election of CPI (M) leader O. Bharathan to Kerala Assembly from Edakkad (91).
8/19/1910Sister Alphonsa, teacher and social worker, was born at Kudamaloor, Kerala.
3/8/1941Sir Jorge Abraham Gearson, philologist and archealogist, passed away.
7/25/1976Sriram Singh at Montreal sets record for 800m in 1.45.77.
9/7/1947Gandhiji leaves Calcutta for Delhi; commences daily visits to riot-affected areas.