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Historical Event on 7/17/1996

All 47 ministers in Madhya Pradesh submit resignations to CM Digvijay Singh.

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2/19/1855U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born.
8/15/1872Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.
11/1/2000T. R. Prasad was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He holds this office till date.
1/14/1991Chitragupta, famous film music director, passed away.
8/30/1934Balkrishna Pandharinath Gupte ""Baloo"", cricketer (brother of Fergie, Indian leggie), was born in Bombay.
6/28/1975Netherlands gives independence to Dutch Guyana, which becomes Suriname; one third of Hindus (descendants of Indian plantation workers) emigrate to Netherlands for better social and economic conditions.