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Historical Event on 3/17/1989
Daily newspaper 'Sakal' published its edition in South Maharashtra.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/1/1942 | No. 4 Squadron of the IAF was born in the war at Peshawar. The Squadron was first equipped with Lysander aircraft. The Second World War was in its third year and Japanese forces were advancing towards India's eastern frontiers. |
| 2/13/1989 | Aubrey Menen (76), Renowned writer, passed away in Kerala. |
| 4/18/1956 | India, Indonesia, Burma, Ceylon and Pakistan meet in New Delhi to reaffirm their faith in Bandung Principles. |
| 1/15/1997 | Pakistan's pilotless surveillance aircraft intrudes into Indian air space for the first time. |
| 3/25/1987 | Marxist-led alliance gets majority in Kerala and West Bengal elections . |
| 10/19/1689 | Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals. |
| 7/22/1956 | Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing. |
| 12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
| 7/12/1920 | Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 6/15/1899 | Roy Chowdhury Devipasad, modern Indian sculptor and painter, was born. |
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