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Historical Event on 11/17/1921

Princes of Wales came to India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/8/1995Prem Bhatia, journalist, passed away at 83.
5/5/1818Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, was born at Trier, Germany.
8/6/1993Medha Patkar suspends anti-Narmada stir and drops her ''jal samarpan'' threat.
3/22/1938IRFA was registered as a local body not administered by the Government on March 22, 1938 under the Government of India Act No. XXI of 1860.
11/14/1993Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who quit JD, joins BJP.
11/14/1993Surdas (1483-1563), blind Hindi bard and singer of Agra whose hymns to Krishna are compiled in the 'Sursagar', was born in Sihi village near Delhi.
10/1/1932Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years.
5/28/1963Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India).
7/29/1997India to revive 'Agni' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile programme.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.