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Historical Event on 3/17/1905
Narsinghcharya Purohit Tirunarayan Iyyangar, famous Kannad poet, music director and critic, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/21/1945 | British promise India independence. |
| 3/5/1989 | Baba Prithvisingh, founder of Labour Party, passed away. |
| 12/3/1971 | During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began. |
| 10/1/1958 | Metric System of weights was introduced in India. |
| 1/15/1899 | Musaffir, Giani Gurmukh Singh, writer and politician, was born at Udhwal (Pakistan). |
| 1/16/1973 | Om Prakash Mehra, Air Chief Marshal PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/01/1976. |
| 7/1/1955 | S. P. Kampani, was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 18-07-1957. |
| 11/20/1942 | Attri Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested for further six months. She was earlier arrested for personal satyagraha and to hoist the national flag in Delhi Central Jail on January 26. |
| 6/13/1931 | Gandhi to live in a garret amongst the poor in London. |
| 12/3/1992 | Indian, UN Operations in Mozambique begins (ONUMOZ - Dec 92 to Oct 94) |
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