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Historical Event on 6/17/1993
K. D. Dharmadhikari (Nana), veteran freedom fighter, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/17/1993 | Vallabhacharya, founder of 'Pushthimarg Panth', was born. |
| 9/16/1977 | Kesarbai Kerkar, famous classical singer, died in Bombay. |
| 1/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 10/18/1992 | 1,000 police personnel occupy the Golden Temple in Amritsar to keep Punjab separatists away. |
| 3/29/1932 | Sundaram Gundibalirama, right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler, was born at Udipi in Karnataka. |
| 1/14/1990 | India and Maldives scrap visas. |
| 10/15/1915 | Dr. I. Gopalkrishnan, Cricket Test Umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 8/10/1998 | Sri Bhuteshanandji Maharaj, 97, president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, died in Calcutta. |
| 4/1/1944 | Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India. |
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