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Historical Event on 10/17/1995

BJP withdraws support to Mayavati Government in Uttar Pradesh. UP Governor Motilal Vohra accepts the resignation of Mayawati and her cabinet but asks her to continue as caretaker government. BJP's top brass takes the final decision to break with the BSP.

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12/13/1978Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.
11/24/1919Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi.
8/3/1993Government assures Lok Sabha that it will revive the proposal for a multi-member election commission.
3/1/1908A.E.T. Barrow, educationist, was born.
4/6/1998The Sonia Gandhi era begins in the Congress(I) with a special AICC session ratifying the decision of the CWC appointing her president in place of Sitaram Kesri.
9/23/1803British-Indian forces defeated the Marathas in the Battle of Assaye.
5/30/1999India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.
7/1/1947British Parliament passes the India Independence Act and fixes August 15 for the transfer of power.
4/13/1890Ramchandra Gopal Torne (Dadasaheb), film director, was born.
4/1/1855Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's first Bengali primer 'Varnaparichay' was published.