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Historical Event on 11/17/1973
Mother Pondicherry, greatest teacher and religious leader, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/9/1985 | Editor of 'Sakal', a Marathi daily newspaper, passed away. |
| 2/23/1876 | Saint Gadgebaba, great modern saint of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 3/1/1908 | Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India. |
| 10/29/1961 | New All India Muslim League was established. |
| 9/7/2000 | The Election Commission de-recognises the Lok Shakti, headed by former Union Minister Ramakrishna Hegde, as a state party on the basis of its performance in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in 1999. |
| 10/24/1994 | The Supreme Court refused to answer Presidential reference on Ayodhya and acquisition of disputed land was upheld. |
| 2/5/1922 | Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc. |
| 12/22/1992 | Lok Sabha adopts the constitution amendment bills regarding Panchayati Raj and Nagarapalika Bills, and decentralisation of power to the village level. |
| 6/4/1997 | Special Judge Ajit Bharihoke discharges former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao and former Union Minister Prof. K. K. Tewary in St. Kitts forgery case for lack of sufficient evidence. |
| 1/8/1984 | Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74. |
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