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Historical Event on 3/17/1943

Indian troops retreat from Rathedaung to Buthidaung in the face of a renewed Japanese offensive on the Arakan front in Burma.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/9/1923Idris Hassan Latif, Air Chief Marshal, was born at Hyderabad, Deccan.
2/23/1997176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa.
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12/27/1998Churches and missionary schools come under attack and many were injured in a fresh outbreak of communal violence in Surat and Dangs district of Gujarat even as the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad announce the stepping up of their stir against the alleged conversion of Hindus.
2/10/1946Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals.
3/8/1673Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj conquered the fort of Panhala.
5/26/1926Kankalta, freedom fighter, was born in Bargawadi village at Assam . She was shot when she tried to flur the Indian National Flag in Gopur, Assam.
5/17/1995Three North Eastern States removes restricted area permits (RAP).
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
7/19/1974Udham Singh's, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London.