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Historical Event on 3/17/1997

A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/9/1992Killer brew claims 175 lives in Orissa, Excise Minister Prasanna Kumar Acharya resigns.
1/15/1899Musaffir, Giani Gurmukh Singh, writer and politician, was born at Udhwal (Pakistan).
8/26/1997Vice President Krishan Kant takes over as Chairman of Rajya Sabha.
12/1/1911Dayarnav Raghunath Kopardekar, founder of ""Indrayani Sahitya Prakashan Sanstha"", was born.
12/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi was sworn is as the 6th Prime Minister of India. He succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi. He became the Prime Minister of India for a second time and first time after elections.
11/5/1605Accession of Jahangir
3/22/1963World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways.
6/19/1999The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart.
3/28/1914Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement.
12/9/1977Ravishankar Mahashankar Rawal, famous painter, passed away.