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Historical Event on 12/17/1938
Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/8/1988 | More than 100 people were killed and several injured as Bangalore-Trivandrum Island Express fell into Ashtamudi lake at Perumon in Quilon district of Kerala. |
| 4/3/1994 | S.Bangarappa, former CM, launches his Karnataka Congress Party. |
| 5/31/1921 | Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born. |
| 8/12/1998 | Uttarancha State plan meets with difficulty owing to differences on inclusion of Udham Singh Nagar and Hardwar district. |
| 5/10/1936 | Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, great freedom fighter, politician, journalist and muslim leader, passed away. |
| 11/3/1948 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, delivered his maiden speech in United Nations Organisation (U.N.O.) General Assembly. |
| 6/16/1997 | P. Sukumaran (50), Malayalam film actor, died in Kochi. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 8/15/1990 | Uttar Maharashtra University was established. |
| 1/12/1993 | Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh. |
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