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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
7/27/1994Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses.
3/31/1997The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points.
1/5/1952Nawab of Pataudi Sr, cricketer (played polo 3 Tests for England 3 for India), died.
7/12/1970Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
4/4/1912Dhundiraj Gopal Sapre, Sahityaratna and Sanskrit litterateur, was born.
4/22/1996National Stock Exchange launches a new equity index - the NSE 50.
7/23/1898Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born.
7/19/1998Tremors measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale rocked Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
8/11/1961Dadra and Nagar Haweli declared as Union Territory States.
8/7/1905Indian National Congress declared to boycott the British goods for the first time against Bengal partition, and also advocated to buy ' Swadeshi.