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Historical Event on 1/17/1989
Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/24/1868 | Balasaheb Pantpratinidhi, king of Aundh and painter, was born. |
| 9/20/1940 | Saroj Lalwani, journalist and printing press director, was born. |
| 6/19/1966 | Shiv Sena was established. |
| 11/3/1908 | Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 3/21/1976 | The Indian people have delivered a stinging rebuke to the woman who had ruled them without the benefit of a constitution for the past 19 months by dumping her from office in a landslide election. After 11 years of rule, Indira Gandhi has resigned, and in an uncharacteristically humble statement said she ""accepted the verdict unreservedly"" and promised ""constructive cooperation"" with the new government. The heads of the victorious parties immediately dropped the year-and-a-half-old state of emergency, freed political prisoners, and began negotiations over who would head the new government. |
| 6/8/1998 | Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack. |
| 10/1/1887 | Pandit Hridaynath Ajudhianath Kunzru, politician and social worker, was born at Agra. |
| 2/25/1993 | Kranti Renadev, a naxalite under trial in Andhra, freed. |
| 5/28/1998 | India takes retaliatory measures against Australia for its unilateral action. |
| 10/21/1999 | B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. |
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