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Historical Event on 9/17/1997

Kalpakkam Mini Reactor (KAMINI), the only U-233 fuelled operating reactor in the world, attains maximum capacity of 30 KW.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/16/1946C. Rajagopalchari became the Governor of West Bengal (1947) in Interim Government.
4/5/1957The first Communist ministry in a state was installed in Kerala.
10/18/2000Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, announces relief for phone users. New links to cost Rs. 2,000 in urban areas and Rs. 500 in rural areas.
6/17/1976Montreal Olympics opens.
8/16/1991Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.
5/27/2000In a mini cabinet reshuffle, Nitish Kumar gets back his Agriculture portfolio, while Dilip Ray resigns as Minister of State for Steel.
5/23/1996In second phase of elections in Kashmir valley, Anantnag and Baramulla parliamentary constituencies go to the polls.
9/30/199724th Stock Exchange of India set up at Trivandrum.
12/3/1956Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story writer, passed away.
11/1/1949Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India.