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Historical Event on 9/17/1937
Sitakant Mahapatra, 1933 Gyanpeeth awardee and famous Orria poet, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 11/5/1995 | Common Guidance test flight of Trishul successful. |
| 3/18/1998 | A.B. Vajpayee, the Prime Minister-designate, releases the 'national agenda for governance' in New Delhi. It is silent on the Ram temple issue, scrapping of Article 370 and a uniform civil code. |
| 4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
| 9/30/1916 | Jagan Nath Bhardwaj, social worker and trade unionist, was born at Chartgarh, H.P. |
| 7/23/1906 | Chandrashekhar Azad, great freedom revolutionery and leader, was born at Jhabra, Madhya Pradesh. |
| 11/9/1962 | Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer and educationist Bharat Ratna awardee, died. |
| 1/26/1893 | Srijiva Nyayatirtha Bhattacharya, famous writer and educationist, was born Bhatpara, West Bengal. |
| 4/25/1998 | India protests against Pakistan raising the Kashmir issue at the first SAARC Information Ministers conference in Dhaka. |
| 4/25/2000 | The Supreme Court clears the decks for continuing the trial against AIADMK leader Jayalalitha in the controversial ''TANSI land deal case'' by ''erasing'' the Madras High Court judgment discharging her from the case. |
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