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Historical Event on 6/17/1903
Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/14/1946 | India grants Siam a 20 year, 3 mil. credit to increase export of Siamese rice. |
| 11/22/1873 | Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), was born. |
| 4/15/1919 | British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab. |
| 10/18/1925 | Narayandatt Tiwar, former Central minister and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born. |
| 12/14/1953 | Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born. |
| 1/8/1925 | The first All India Art & Craft Exhibition was inaugurated by Sir William Marries, Governor UP at Kaisar Baug, Lucknow. |
| 1/21/1999 | Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, suspends his party's protest against the coming India-Pakistan cricket matches after an urgent meeting with the Union Home Minister in Mumbai. |
| 1/21/1999 | Akbar's Vajir-E-Ajam 'Bairam Khan' was assassinated at Patan, Gujarat by an Afghan assassin Mubarak Khan Lohani ( whose father was slain by Bairam Khan) in the battle of Machiwara. |
| 10/1/1978 | In the Child Marriage Act, minimum age for marriage was raised to 21 year for males and 18 years for females. |
| 6/17/1995 | Motilal Vohra, UP Governor, sets agenda for a two-day special session of the UP Assembly asking the speaker to take up a motion against self first. |
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