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Historical Event on 8/17/1911

Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/27/1604Guru Granth Sahib was established in the Golden Temple of Amritsar.
5/31/1756Jose Cusodio Faria was born in Candolim of Goa. He was a revolutionary scientist and also known as Abbe Faria.
7/31/1658Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor.
4/5/1922Pandita Ramabai, social worker and philosophist, passed away.
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.
5/6/1971India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan's civil war.
7/25/2000Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena Chief, courts arrest and the court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Boiwada, B. P. Kamble dismisses the case because of six-year delay in pursuing it after the FIR.
10/25/1951First General Election of India begins.
5/9/1998Kirit Raval is appointed Solicitor-General of India.
12/29/19578,000 ton cruiser INS Mysore commissioned.