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Historical Event on 5/17/1873

Hindi daily 'Bharat Mitra' started from Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1942Rasbihari Bose established the Indian National Army.
5/24/1992D. R. Bhagwat, veteran journalist, passed away.
12/28/1921Prince of Wales inagurated Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta.
9/15/1947Gandhi deplores the idea of population transfer.
10/3/1978Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta.
10/6/1963Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter and grand old man of Punjab, died.
11/9/1948Administration of Mayurbhanj State taken over by the Government of India.
8/29/1994Tusharkanti Ghosh, world famous Indian journalist, passed away.
11/14/1995Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court.
3/21/1979The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988).