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Historical Event on 6/17/1887

Dr. Kailas Nath Katju, freedom fighter, politician, leader and Governor of Orissa and West Bengal, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/4/1903Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban.
6/20/1987Dr. Salim Ali, internationally renowned expert of birds, died at Bombay.
10/28/1998The 1998 Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award is presented to 11 young scientists.
1/24/1996H.K.L. Bhagat, senior Congress politician and former minister, arrested in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case.
1/6/1996CBI identifies two key figures - Satyanarayana Gauda and Daya Manikam Anand - in Purulia arms drop case.
11/10/1901Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab.
1/28/1961Foundation-stone of the first factory of H.M.T. wrist watches laid in Bangalore.
6/4/1997Defence Ministry denies Washington Post's report that India has deployed Prithvi missile on Punjab border with Pakistan.
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
6/4/1989Melville de Mellow, Eminent broadcaster, died.