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Historical Event on 8/17/1970

The first microwave link, which was set up without foreign assistance, was commissioned between Asansol, Dhanbad and Ranchi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/19/1921Pandurangshastri Athvle, founder of 'Swadhyay Pariwar', was born.
3/19/1998BJP-led coalition government is sworn in. Atal Behari Vajpayee became the second time Prime Minister of India.
10/13/1989Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalika Bills defeated in Rajya Sabha.
6/1/1930Baba Adhav was born.
3/14/1997Border Security Force discovers a 34-metre long tunnel in the Ajnala Sub-sector of the Punjab border with Pakistan.
5/22/1997At least 40 persons are killed and over 300 injured in an earthquake which hit Jabalpur city.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.
11/19/19971996 Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development presented to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a non-government organisation, providing medical aid to the needy across the globe, by President K. R. Narayanan on the 80th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi.
12/20/1957Kalinga Prize for 1957 awarded to Lord Bertrand Russell.
12/1/1966Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union.