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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"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/24/1946	Gandhiji meets Cabinet Mission.
1/26/1930	Mahatma Gandhi started the Dandi march to protest against the Salt Act of the British and the same day Indians swore to get 'Total' Swaraj and organised the day as Swaraj Day.
1/31/1896	Dattatray Ramchandra Bendre, Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award winner and Kannad poet, was born.
3/26/1969	Romesh Chandra, secretary general of the World Peace Council, receives the Lenin prize
3/2/1997	Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit.
4/7/1998	Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India.
9/13/1990	An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
10/25/1951	First General Election of India begins.
1/24/1997	Public holiday in connection with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose birth centenary.
8/19/1947	Vinayak Damodar Karnataki (Master Vinayak), famous Marathi actor, director and producer, died.

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