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Historical Event on 12/17/1938
Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died.
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| 9/27/2000 | The Union Cabinet decides to increase the number of Padma series of awards for excellence in different fields of activities from 60 to 100. |
| 2/12/1960 | Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers. |
| 6/9/1998 | 81 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone. |
| 1/14/1990 | J&K Governor quits. |
| 9/5/1888 | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India's first vice-president and second president, was born at Tiruttani near Madras. |
| 12/21/1921 | Praphulchandra Natwarlal Bhagwati, justice of Supreme Court, was born. |
| 5/26/1945 | Vilasrao Dagdojirao Deshmukh, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 1/15/1888 | Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar. |
| 11/11/1872 | Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", was b |
| 1/29/1979 | Tamil Nadu Expess, India's first Jumbo passenger train, was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station for Madras. |
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