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Historical Event on 3/17/1989

Daily newspaper 'Sakal' published its edition in South Maharashtra.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/19/1961Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops.
10/4/1974India in apartheid protest refuses to play South Africa in Davis Cup finals.
10/24/1966Yugoslavia, UAR call on the US at New Delhi to stop bombing of North Vietnam.
12/5/1992V. P. Singh and hundreds arrested in Barabanki on the way to Ayodhya.
12/1/1985Rajiv Gandhi concludes the first official visit to Japan by an Indian Prime Minister at Tokyo.
12/9/1946The first meeting of Constitutional Committee Assembly was held in Parliment after a gap of two years, 11 months and 17 days. The Congress started its work of framing the Indian Constitution. Muslim League boycott failed to prevent Constituent Assembly opening. From 16th August 1946, the country witnessed communal riots on an unprecedented scale. At this crucial juncture, on 20th February 1947, Clement Atlee the British prime minister, fixed June 1948 as a deadline for transfer of power and Lord Mountbatten was appointed as the new Viceroy.
3/17/1920Mujiburr Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara now in Bangladesh.
5/1/1960Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujrat States.
3/17/1905Narsinghcharya Purohit Tirunarayan Iyyangar, famous Kannad poet, music director and critic, was born.
12/29/1989Prasar Bharati Bill and Lok Pal Bill introduced in Lok Sabha.