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Historical Event on 10/17/1940

Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/12/1976Madanlal Dhingra's ashes were brought to India.
1/11/1986Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.
1/11/1986
1/30/1994Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets.
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
6/6/1997Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
12/9/1825Tula Ram Rao, one of the revolutionary heroes of the 1857 and Sepoy Mutiny, was born.
5/13/1997Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.
3/14/1883Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, died in London.
7/17/1948Govt. announced that all discriminations against women in matter of employment will be done away with and in future, women will be eligible for any public service including administrative sevice and police service.