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Historical Event on 8/17/1932

V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/14/196985 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur.
12/1/1989A 13-member Sikkim Sangram Parishad Ministry headed by Nar Bahadur Bhandari assumes office in Sikkim.
5/25/1995Parliament gives assent to Budget and passes Finance Appropriation Bill.
6/3/1972First British designed Indian built mordern warship of the Leander class, 'INS Nilgiri' commissioned Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was completely made in Mazgaon Dock, Mumbai.
1/30/1996Mob ransacks Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Bangalore.
2/11/1980Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, passed away.
9/7/1988President's rule in Mizoram.
9/28/1965India-Pakistan hostility erupts into a war lead by Pakistan.
7/7/1992Truckers call off strike.
10/27/1969Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab.