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Historical Event on 10/17/1979
Mother Teresa, social worker, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/1996 | T. S. R. Subramaniam was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1998. |
| 5/27/1994 | Tarktirth Laxmanshastri Joshi, internationally famous omnicient, passed away. |
| 1/18/1982 | Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi. |
| 12/8/1970 | Army Ordnance Corps was awarded the 'Colours' by the Vice President of India, Shri G S Pathak, at AOC Centre, Secunderabad. The Ordnance colour is a scarlet silken flag with the Ordnance crest in the center and surrounding it is a wreath of Ashoka Leaves and Lotus flowers. |
| 9/27/1873 | Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, nationalist leader, politician and President of the Central Assembly, was born at Karmasad, Gujarat. |
| 5/31/1977 | Major Premchand and Naik Nima Dorji Sherpa, in the team on Indian Army Treckers, reached the peak of Kanchenjunga. They were amongst the first Indians to reach this peak. |
| 7/27/1928 | Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP). |
| 7/27/1928 | Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619. |
| 1/18/1959 | Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good. |
| 10/11/1902 | Loknayak Jayprakash Harsudayal Narayan, veteran socialist leader, was born at Sitabdiara village (border of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar) in Bihar. He was awarded Bharat Ratna on Dec. 23, 1998 and played a key role in formation of Janta Party which defeated Indian National Congress for the first time. |
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