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Historical Event on 1/17/1952
The pension work of CDA (Factories), Calcutta and the Defence civilians in ordnance factories was transferred to the office of the CDA (P), Allahabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/4/1924 | Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad' wrote the song 'Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara'. |
| 2/19/1915 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale, social reformer, political leader and freedom fighter, passed away. |
| 10/5/1993 | Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel. |
| 10/10/1910 | Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis, famous doctor who worked in China, was born at Solapur, Maharashtra. |
| 1/2/1993 | Allahabad court allows 'darshan' at Ayodhya. |
| 8/25/1919 | Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal, former Chief Minister of Bihar and President of Mandal Commission, was born. |
| 11/1/1956 | Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved. |
| 1/31/1998 | D. R. Karthikeyan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/03/98). |
| 2/6/1992 | The Centre decides to wind up the 7-year-old Food Processing Industry ministry. |
| 7/1/1997 | Prime Minister inaugurated India's first Science City in Calcutta. |
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