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Historical Event on 1/17/1987
Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/24/1629 | Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies. |
| 3/1/1950 | The population figure for India is announced as 347,340,000. |
| 8/19/1934 | Dr. Hiralal died. He was a distinguished historian and contributed numerous articles to 'Indian Antiquary', 'Epigraphia Indica', The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, etc. He was also an honorary correspondent in Archaeology to the Government of India. |
| 2/22/1858 | Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged. |
| 6/19/2000 | Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana. |
| 2/23/1908 | Maharaj Kumar Raghubir Sinh, famous Hindi writer and historian, was born. |
| 5/26/1931 | One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras. |
| 4/7/1934 | Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience in India. |
| 3/24/1998 | 200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district. |
| 12/28/1977 | Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died. |
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