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Historical Event on 2/17/1994

Chimanbhai Patel, chief minister of Gujrat, passed away at the age of 65 years.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/10/1848Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
2/28/1936Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland.
3/13/1997Sister Nirmala Joshi, 63, is chosen to succeed Mother Teresa as the Superior-General of Missionaries of Charity.
9/19/2000India remains committed to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests, but we will not allow this stand to stand in the way of our protecting India's supreme natural interest,'' said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his return from the US.
1/1/1976Broadcasting of Commercial Advertisements on TV stations started.
8/6/1997Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.
9/27/1760Mir Zafar was deposed and his son-in-law Mir Kasim became the Nawab of Bengal. He ruled till July 7, 1763.
11/10/1659Chhatrapati Shivaji killed Afzal Khan near Pratapgad Fort by a clever but undignified move.
4/11/1999Paes-Bhupathi won the doubles in the in the ATP-Gold Flake Open in Chennai.
2/3/1997Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes.