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Historical Event on 8/17/1761
William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/26/1996 | CBI chargesheeted Rao in St. Kitts case. |
1/28/1846 | British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal. |
8/28/1928 | Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, noted physicist and scientific advisor to the Prime Minister, was born at Mangalore in Karnataka. |
12/5/1950 | Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away. |
11/29/1962 | Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100\% villages. |
10/12/1990 | Government of India announces a 15\% cut in oil consumption, exempting LPG and kerosene. |
11/13/1993 | The Indian hospital and aviation was operational immediately. The Indian contingent formally took charge of the responsibility of the capital city of Mogadishu. |
11/18/1960 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away. |
8/10/1992 | Ram Niwas Mirdha appointed Chairman of the JPC on scam. |
4/27/1986 | Congress (I) expels former Union Minister Pranab Kumar Mukherjee from the party for 6 years. |
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