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Historical Event on 6/17/1824

Bureau of Indian Affairs established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/4/1898Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, Indian Scientist and Physicist-Philosopher, was born in Tamil Nadu.
10/3/1890Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born.
4/15/1975India recognises the Sihanouk Government in Cambodia.
12/23/1995400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.
3/31/1994Argentina President Carlos Menem visits India.
3/18/1991West Bengal opts for assembly poll.
3/10/1922Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati.
12/10/1936Duke of York succeeds King Edward as King George VI.
3/28/2000Delhi police arrest Shoaib Ilyasi, producer of the crime serial ''India's Most Wanted'' for the death of his wife Anju on January 10.