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Historical Event on 6/17/1933

The civil disobedience campaign ended.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
1/6/1987An International Conference to commemorate the 75 anniversary of the African National Congress opens in New Delhi.
10/28/1996L.K. Advani, BJP President, appears personally for the first time in a Gwalior Court.
11/14/1967Saba Karim, Indian ODI wicket-keeper 1997, was born.
3/28/1994G-15 summit opens with only six heads of Government in New Delhi.
12/28/1892Dr. Shivajirao Ganesh (Daji Patwardhan), famous social worker and Padmashri awardee, was born.
10/9/1999Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
5/1/1996International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
6/25/1888Lord Louis Mountbatten, British politician, was born.
3/11/1903Shrinagesh M. M, former General, was born.