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Historical Event on 10/17/1996

President's rule reimposed in U.P.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/16/1878Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala.
10/10/1964Ravi Shankar performs at Town Hall in New York.
10/2/1994Five die of pneumonic plague in Delhi. Surat toll rose to 47.
11/22/1928British King George confined to bed with congested lung; Queen to take over duties.
11/19/2000The Government announces a partial rollback in the price of kerosene by Re. 1 a litre and LPG by Rs. 10 a cylinder in deference to the demands by allies led by the Trinamool Congress.
5/13/1791Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera.
3/14/1998Sonia Gandhi takes over as the Congress(I) president from Sitaram Kesri.
10/27/1997UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members.
7/23/1927Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station.
10/30/1994Swaran Singh, 87, former External Affairs minister, died.