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Historical Event on 3/17/1997

A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/2/1994Warden's in Arambaug, India lead about a fifty hungry and bruised elephants into a forest for temporary shelter. After a week, the herd strayed from a santuary, stampeding villagers and terrorising peasants.
6/4/1932Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramhans, passed away.
7/27/1959Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut.
2/14/1990An Indian Airlines Airbus crashes at Bangalore killing 92 people.
4/8/1831Ram Mohan Roy landed in England.
7/7/1855As many as 30,000, people went to Calcutta alongwith weapons to fight the British army.
5/1/1926Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people.
8/2/1858British parliament passed the act to handover the administration of India to British Government from East India Company. After the occasion, the Supreme British ruler in India was called as 'Viceroy'.
12/28/1952Arun Jaitley, son of Maharaj Kishan Jaitley, was born in New Delhi.
11/29/1644The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith.