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Historical Event on 2/17/1917

Fali Mistry, film director and cameraman, was born in Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/31/1933Gandhiji was arrested from Sabarmati Ashram and imprisoned without trial.
4/10/1995Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, first non-Congress Prime Minister of India (1977-79) and Chief Minister of Bombay, passed away at the age of 99. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna.
7/25/1997Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918-1999) retired from the post of 9th President.
11/14/1995Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court.
5/1/1964Ravishankar University was established at Raipur in Madhya Pradesh.
7/1/1975Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, declared a 20-point economic programme.
10/10/1964Gurudutt, famous film actor, died
12/16/1999Likhiram Karve, Madhya Pradesh's Minister for Transport, is hacked to death by naxalites.
3/21/1996PSLV-D3 launched successfully.
1/31/1995ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997).