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Historical Event on 2/17/1976
New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1976 | Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established. |
| 11/23/1937 | Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, eminent scientist, passed away due to heart attack. In 1901, he proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". He founded Bose Research Institute in Calcutta and authored world famous books ""Response in Living and Non-Living""(1902) and ""Nervous Merchanism of Pl |
| 4/6/1997 | Gen. Kofi Annan,UN Secretary, arrives in New Delhi for NAM conference. |
| 2/20/1987 | Lok Dal splits over leadership issue. |
| 7/29/1876 | Indian Science Congress Association was established in Bowbazar Street of Calcutta. |
| 9/10/1993 | India and South Korea sign agreement to expand trade and investment. |
| 3/9/1989 | Yasser Arafat, PLO Chairman, arrives on a two-day state visit to India. |
| 4/18/1926 | Padmakar Ganesh Chitle, famous Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 2/20/1947 | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India. |
| 5/17/1999 | Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it. |
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