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Historical Event on 7/17/1996
Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/2/1987 | Dr. Harekrushna Mahtab, great industrialist, leader and former Chief Minister of Orissa, died. |
| 9/1/1668 | Mumbai was handed over to East India Company by King of England. |
| 1/23/1961 | Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films. |
| 1/17/1908 | Akkineni Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, film producer, was born. |
| 8/9/1966 | Heroes of the 1942 movement were honoured at a rally in Red Fort. |
| 4/24/1995 | K. Karunakaran elected to Rajya Sabha. |
| 6/19/1901 | Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences. |
| 7/25/1977 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy became the sixth President of India. His held this office till July 25, 1982. |
| 10/14/1989 | Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
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