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Historical Event on 11/17/1986
SAARC Summit at Bangalore decides to set up permanent secretariat at Kathmandu; India elected new Chairman.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/12/1941 | Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India. |
| 5/25/1997 | In a bid to break the deadlock on naming transport corporation after caste leaders in southern districts, Tamil Nadu Government agrees to create a new bus corporation named after Pulithevan. |
| 1/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College. |
| 10/9/1949 | The Territorial Army of India inaugurated by the Governor General. |
| 4/3/1903 | Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, famous politician, freedom fighter and social worker, was born in South Kanara, Karnataka. |
| 1/12/1966 | Shiri Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (Kakasaheb), great freedom fighter, nationalist leader, social reformer, lawyer, prolific writer and politician, passed away. |
| 6/28/1928 | Baburao Sadvelkar, famous painter, was born. |
| 5/13/1996 | Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party. |
| 3/25/1991 | 1991 census report released; India has 844 million people. |
| 10/3/1831 | Britishers captured Mysore. |
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