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Historical Event on 2/17/1931
Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".
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| 9/29/1970 | Union Carbide India Ltd in Bombay was commissioned Reclamation Plant Sewage Water of India for commercial use. |
| 7/1/1906 | Pulavar Kulandai, great author and poet, was born at Bhavani. |
| 9/16/2000 | Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics. |
| 10/3/1950 | India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York. |
| 7/20/1957 | India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar. |
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| 2/21/1979 | Yousuf Hussain, litterateur and brother of President Zakir Hussain Khan, passed away. |
| 11/3/1945 | Temporary Octroi Mandal established. |
| 8/2/1922 | Krishnapal Singh, politician and lawyer, was born at Birahuli in Madhya Pradesh. |
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