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Historical Event on 9/17/1997

Advance railway reservation period extended from 30 to 60 days w.e.f. February 01, 1998.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/5/1991Ramnath Goenka, journalist and founder chairman of the Indian Express Newspapers Group, died at the age of 87 years.
2/11/1993Andhra Naxalites release four out of six hostages.
5/2/1907Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab.
12/29/1989Prasar Bharati Bill and Lok Pal Bill introduced in Lok Sabha.
9/22/1687Aurangzeb ended Kutubshah kingdom.
2/10/1961P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'.
6/20/1994Anti-Pakistan slogans rent the air in Jammu & Kashmir against the killing of Quazi Nissar Ahmed, Mirwaiz of South Kashmir and a famous religious Kashmiri leader who was gunned down by Pak-aided terrorists.
5/12/1987Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat.
4/22/1983Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85.
7/28/199712 persons are killed and 69 injured as New Delhi-bound Karnataka Express rams Himsagar Express at Old Faridabad station level-crossing in Haryana.