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Historical Event on 6/17/1917

Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba started living at Hriday Kunj in Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad.

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1/24/1937Gandhi announces that he will retire from politics.
6/29/1901Amal Kumar Sarkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
5/14/1992LTTE banned in India.
7/21/1977K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
10/29/1990Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, died.
12/24/1999Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad.
4/6/1934Nilkanth Yashwant Khadilkar, editor of Marathi daily newspaper, was born.
8/3/199835 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed.
9/9/1896Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad', freedom fighter, social worker and Padamshree awardee, was born in Narwal village near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
11/15/1993IA Airbus with 272 on board forcelands on a paddy field near Tirupati; all passengers safe.