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Historical Event on 2/17/1618

First English Ambassador Sir Thomas Roe returned to England after meeting Emperor Jahangir in his court.

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9/25/1999Eighth SAF Games inaugurated in Kathmandu.
7/25/1992K. Madhavan, CBI Jt. Director looking into the security scam, resigns.
2/14/1914Vinaya Kumar Parashar, journalist and social worker, was born at Hemgir, M.P.
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4/10/1996The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt.
8/25/1990GOI announces formation of National Security Council headed by the Prime Minister.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.