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Historical Event on 2/17/1976

Urban Ceilings Act comes into force.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
9/24/1629Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies.
2/12/1993The baggage rules relaxed further.
9/5/1659Queen Saibai, wife of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.
9/19/1933Sunit Francis Rodrigues, former Chief Army General, was born.
9/27/1972Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore.
10/29/1999L .K. Advani, Home Minister, says the Centre is in touch with cyclone-hit states.
2/28/1927Krishan Kant, vice President of India and former Young Turk, was born at Kot Mohd. Khan, district Amritsar, Punjab.
1/11/1991Ravi Naik of Maharashtra Gomanthak party sworn in as the CM of Goa.
3/1/1971Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc.