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Historical Event on 10/17/1970
Anil Radhakrishna Kumble, cricketer (great Indian leg spinner since 1990), was born in Bangalore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/2/1994 | Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections. |
| 3/6/1928 | Nilkanth Ramanbhai Mahipatrao, famous Gujrati litterateur, critic, dramatist and social reformer, died. |
| 7/9/1875 | The Bombay Stock Exchange, the first in India, was constructed under the shade of a large banyan tree. |
| 7/5/1882 | Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), classical singer and Muslim mystic, was born. He was instrumental in bringing Sufism to the music. |
| 4/14/1993 | The Cabinet Committee approves delicensing of car, refrigerator and leather goods industries. |
| 11/16/1877 | Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat |
| 5/9/1998 | Playback singer Talat Mehmood, 75, passed away in Mumbai. |
| 6/3/1915 | Sir' knighthood was granted to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore by the British Government. |
| 8/4/1928 | Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
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