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Historical Event on 2/17/1931
Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".

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3/9/1989	Yasser Arafat, PLO Chairman, arrives on a two-day state visit to India.
1/24/1980	E. K. Nayanar forms Government in Kerala.
12/23/2000	The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government's proposal to rename Calcutta as ''Kolkata''.
6/25/1922	Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away.
1/1/1944	Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, died.
1/1/1944	The first visit of Jesuit Priest of Goa in the Court of Emperor Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri.
3/5/1919	M.L. Kapoor, great industrialist, was born at Lahore.
5/29/1957	Satish Kumar Sareen graduated from the first batch of the JSW and went onto the AFFC for flying training.
12/17/1987	Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims.
6/10/1966	MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik.

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