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Historical Event on 11/17/1994
Dr. Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet, wins Saraswati Samman.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/29/1996 | SC asks All India Indira Congress to modify its name as All Indira Congress (Tiwari). |
| 1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
| 3/11/1881 | Ashley Eden unveiled in Calcutta Town Hall the first statue of Indians Ram Nath Tagore and Dwarkanath Tagore. |
| 4/24/1972 | Jamini Roy, Padmabhushan awardee and famous painter, passed away. |
| 1/24/1950 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected to become the first President of India and 'Jana Gana Mana....' was accepted as the National Anthem of the country. |
| 3/22/1893 | Surya Sen, alias Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born. |
| 3/22/1893 | Francisco de Almeida, Viceroy of Protuguese India, passed away in a battle. |
| 8/15/1997 | The Government bans doctors from determining the sex of the foetus. |
| 12/26/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other's country. |
| 8/1/1939 | Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed. |
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