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Historical Event on 2/17/1931
Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".

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3/4/1996	Union govt. decides to set up a national grid for the distribution of petroleum products.
4/17/1926	Chandrashekhar, eighth Prime Minister of India, was born.
6/21/1930	Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob.
2/20/1968	First Edition of 'Amrit Bazar Patrika' weekly was published in Bengali language.
8/29/1923	Sir Richard Attenborough, famous actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), was born.
6/28/1857	Nana Sahib proclaimed himself as the Peshwa and called for the total extermination of the British power of India at Bithoor.
9/12/1905	Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London.

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