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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 |
| 10/17/1940 | Mughal army defeated Rana Pratapsingh in the battle of Haldighat. |
| 10/12/1946 | Ashok Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78), was born in Bombay. |
| 4/15/1948 | Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh was created by the merger of some 30 small ruling states. |
| 4/9/1986 | First University in India devoted to hygiene established at Vijaywada. |
| 10/19/1954 | Nehru and Mao meet in Peking. |
| 4/23/1751 | Gilbert Aliat Minto, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 5/26/1931 | One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras. |
| 3/11/1948 | SS Jal Usha, the first ocean-going steamer made in India, was launched from Visakhapatnam. |
| 9/18/1803 | Puri was captured by Britishers from the Marathas without any struggle. |
| 10/16/1878 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala. |
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