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Historical Event on 8/17/1848

Romesh Chunder Dutt, great political leader, writer and social worker, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/21/1996Supreme Court holds that attempt to suicide and its abetment would continue to be punishable offences.
11/21/1998India 'B' beats Sri Lanka 3-2 in the final of the Bristol Freedom Cup four-nation football tournament in Colombo.
3/8/1995Dr. Duranand Kanhan Pillai, great litterateur of Malyali language, died.
11/28/2000Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, launches his political outfit 'Janashakti' at a rally in New Delhi.
11/1/2000T. R. Prasad was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He holds this office till date.
1/23/1897Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War.
12/12/1989Air Chief Marshal (retd.) Arjan Singh named Delhi Lt. Governor.
6/23/1993Motilal Vohra made governor of UP.
3/5/1999The indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ''Pinaka'' is successfully test-fired at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa.
7/28/1924Many deaths were reported and several villages were destroyed due to floods in the south.