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Historical Event on 9/17/1864

Anagrik Dharmapal, religious reformer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/11/1956The PM announced in the Lok Sabha the conclusion of the Netaji Inquiry Committee that Netaji did die in an air-crash.
3/19/1911Santosh Kumar Ganguly, cricket test empire and 10 test 1955-65, was born in Bengal. He also played Hockey and Football. He is the aurthor of ""Manual of Cricket Umpires"" and ""Technique of Umpiring Hockey"".
4/19/1976Maharshi Dayanand University established in Haryana.
5/1/1923Under the leadership of Singaravelu Chettiar, the first May day was celebrated in India.
12/11/1990T. N. Seshan appointed CEC, and Mohan Dharia Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission.
9/24/1992Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges.
12/22/1947Dilip Rasiklal Doshi, cricketer (India's main slow lefty post-Bedi), was born in Rajkot.
4/1/1994Five ministers resign from the Wilfred D'souza Government in Goa.
3/7/1956A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.