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Historical Event on 9/17/1997

Advance railway reservation period extended from 30 to 60 days w.e.f. February 01, 1998.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/7/197378 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India).
6/22/1993The centre bans the use of 12 pesticides.
9/3/1906Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'.
10/14/1919Raghu Karmkar, famous cinephotographer, was born.
3/29/1989Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.
9/30/1997At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir.
3/17/1987Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak.
12/14/1901Gandhiji reaches Rajkot via Porbunder.
10/21/1995Suresh Mehta, Finance Minister in the outgoing Keshubhai Patel ministry, sworn in as the second BJP CM of Gujarat in Gandhinagar, ending the month-long political turmoil.
10/24/1827Viceroy Lord Rippan (1880-1884) was born