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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"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1996 | Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case). |
| 4/6/1966 | Mihir Sen, first Indian swimmer to achieve many remarkable feats, swam across the 'Palk Strait' measuring 22 kms between India & Sri Lanka (Cylone). |
| 8/11/1984 | A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud. |
| 3/21/1937 | Muhammad Jaffer, great Indian Hockey player, was born. |
| 1/6/1979 | Rohini-200, first monsoon experimental rocket, launched from Thumba. |
| 7/31/1658 | Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor. |
| 7/31/1658 | Guru Amardasji passed away. |
| 12/30/1974 | Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi. |
| 2/27/1803 | Great fire in Bombay. |
| 8/8/1955 | Dr. Homi J. Bhabha elected chairman of the international conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. |
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