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Historical Event on 7/17/1996
Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/1/1913 | Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, politician, social reformer, lawyer and athelete, was born. |
| 11/12/1939 | Pratap Chandra Lal arrived at the training establishment at RAF Station, Risalpur. He then rose to the Air Chief Marcharl of Indian Air Force. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"". |
| 2/11/1944 | Buddhadev Dasgupta, director (Charachar, Grihajuddha), was born. |
| 5/14/1960 | The first plane of India flew upto New York. |
| 1/10/1997 | 28th International Film Festival of India opens at Trivandrum. |
| 3/23/1923 | Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Sukkur, Sind. He was held for removing of fishplates which caused derailment of British Wagon. |
| 1/3/1994 | Stalemate persists on the Kashmir issue during Indo-Pak talks that concluded in Islamabad. |
| 5/5/1818 | Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, was born at Trier, Germany. |
| 3/16/1995 | K. Karunakaran resigns as CM of Kerala; Finance Minister presents Central Budget. |
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