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Historical Event on 7/17/1930
Lord Irwin,British Viceroy, allows Indian moderates to visit Gandhi in prison.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/8/1995 | Mulayam Singh wins the crucial vote of strength. |
| 9/9/1952 | Kishorlal Ghanshamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, passed away. |
| 7/11/1994 | Delhi IG (prisons) Kiran Bedi wins Magsaysay Award for public service. |
| 2/7/1992 | Shalki', the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy. |
| 10/2/1952 | Community Development Programme started. |
| 1/29/1781 | First Newspaper, J.A.Hickey's Bengal Gazette - January 29, 1781. |
| 5/7/1973 | The foundation stone was laid of Itanagar, the new capital of Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 6/19/1999 | The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart. |
| 8/21/1931 | Pandit Vishnu Dingambar Paluskar, famous singer and the blind musician of Maharashtra, passed away. |
| 7/16/1856 | Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar, on the request of Governor Lord Canning, instituted a law announcing the right of Hindu widows for re-marriage. |
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