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Historical Event on 7/17/1893

Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1992Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs Australia at the SCG.
3/29/1914Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram came in India.
12/10/1999Pranab Mukherjee and Jaipal Reddy are chosen outstanding parliamentarians for 1997 and 1998 respectively.
6/22/1944British 14th army frees Imphal, Assam.
5/1/1977Janata Party was established.
6/1/1790A treaty was signed between Marathas, Britishers and Nizam.
2/3/1986Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta.
3/31/1999The PIO card, conferring privileges on persons of Indian origin settled abroad, is formally launched.
4/3/1946Sagarmal Gopa, devoted patriot, freedom fighter and political worker, was burnt alive.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.