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Historical Event on 7/17/1935
Dr. Ram Babu Gupta, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1986-89, was born at Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/21/1997 | Foreign currency reserves of RBI stand at $16 billions, which was a record of sorts. |
| 9/18/1917 | Sher Singh, educationist and politician, was born at Baghpur (Haryana). |
| 2/4/1994 | India elected to the executive boards of UNDP, UN Population Fund and UNICEF. |
| 3/3/1996 | Haryana govt. bans liquor vends and bars in rural areas. |
| 10/31/2000 | Chhattisgarh, the 26th State of Indian Union, comes into existence with the swearing in of its Governor Dinesh Nandan Sahay and Chief Minister Ajit Jogi at a glittering function at Raipur. |
| 3/9/1897 | Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official). |
| 12/25/1994 | Giani Zail Singh, former President of India, died in Chandigarh at the age of 78. |
| 9/1/1928 | Arun Kumar Seal, educationist, was born at Vishnupur. |
| 12/8/1998 | An Indian film, 'The Terrorist' wins all top awards including the Golden Pyramid award for the best film at the 23rd Cairo International Film Festival. Santosh Sivan gets the best director award, while its actress Ayesha Dharker bags the best actress award. |
| 7/7/1962 | 94 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay. |
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