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Historical Event on 8/17/1944
Indian Viceroy Viscount Wavell rejects Gandhi's request to discuss war support in return for Indian independence.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/24/1931 | 19 people were killed by police during the anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir. |
| 10/24/2000 | Hyrunnisa, suspected to be the key accused in the Kollam liquor tragedy, nabbed along with her husband and a worker in her shop in Guruvayur. |
| 12/13/2000 | The Lok Sabha begins the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid debate. |
| 4/14/1963 | Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, great Hindi writer, politician and professor, passed away at Darjeeling. |
| 9/6/1996 | A Delhi court says there are grounds for framing charges of criminal conspiracy and corruption against L.K. Advani. |
| 5/4/1799 | Tipu Sultan is killed in a battle against 5,000 British soldiers who stormed and razed his capital, Seringapatanam. |
| 7/22/1998 | India's 4x100m quartet of Saraswati Dey, E.B. Shyla, P.T. Usha and Rachita Mistry win gold in the Asian Athletic championships at Fukuoka. |
| 7/10/1997 | Rafiq Sadiq, Congress(I) leader, escapes attempt on life when armed militants ambush motorcade near Achabal in South Anantnag, Kashmir valley. |
| 6/18/1996 | CBI arrests Sanjeeva Rao, relative of Narasimha Rao, and Prakash Yadav, son of former Union Minister, in the urea scam. |
| 7/10/1992 | P.Chidambaram,Union Minister, resigns owning responsibility for investing in 'Fairgrowth'. |
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