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Historical Event on 7/17/1996
Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/24/1946 | Gandhiji meets Cabinet Mission. |
| 1/4/1972 | Pakistan proposed to talk after the war. |
| 10/1/1998 | Anxiety in stock market after UTI's US-64 scheme is reported to have paid dividend, eating out of its capital. |
| 10/1/1998 | Saint Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest, Spanish missionary teaching in India and Japan, was born in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre. |
| 12/27/1996 | Mahashweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, win the Gyanpith Award. |
| 1/11/1996 | Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi. |
| 11/13/1953 | Richard Nixon, the US Vice President, arrives in New Delhi. |
| 3/5/1919 | M.L. Kapoor, great industrialist, was born at Lahore. |
| 7/9/1996 | A Delhi court summoned former Prime Minister Narsimha Rao to face trial as an accused in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case in which godman Chandraswami was already facing trial. |
| 1/3/1931 | Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born. |
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