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Historical Event on 1/17/1989

Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/22/1982South-South Conference opens in New Delhi.
4/22/1991IMF and the World Bank decide to grant $1 billion loan to India.
4/25/1906Dara Nusserwanji Marshall, librarian and educationist, was born.
6/5/1882Cyclonic Storm & floods in Arabian Sea hit Bombay. About 100,000 people drowned.
6/29/1976Sandhya Chib, Miss India-Universe (1996), was born.
9/4/19676.5 earthquake at Koyna Dam in Maharashtra kills 200 people.
10/28/1962US pledges to rush arms to India.
10/9/1970Production of Uranium 233 started at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay.
5/29/1952The Socialist Party and Krishak Mazdoor Praja Party decide to form a single parliamentary party.
11/24/1992Lok Sabha approves bill seeking to confer Indian citizenship to a child born to an Indian mother outside the country.