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Historical Event on 1/17/1933
Aga Khan, religious leader (Muslims), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/4/1907 | Riots in Calcutta. |
| 2/3/1992 | Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first). |
| 7/5/1968 | Naval Submarine wing in Indian Naval Force came into existence with the arrival of the first submarine from the Soviet Union. |
| 9/12/1971 | Jaikishen, famous Hindi film music director, died. |
| 4/20/2000 | A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V. |
| 3/2/1994 | President's rule in J & K extended. |
| 8/14/1968 | Pravin Kalyan Amre, cricketer (Indian batsman, century on Test debut 1992), was born in Bombay. |
| 9/17/1899 | First British troops leave Bombay for South Africa. |
| 11/30/1920 | N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born. |
| 1/10/1908 | Gandhiji adopts word, ""Satyagraha"" in place of ""Passive Resistance"". Sentenced to two months' imprisonment for failure to leave Transvaal. |
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