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Historical Event on 10/17/1940
Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.
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| 5/19/1908 | Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born. |
| 11/11/1888 | Acharya Kripalani, nationalist and member of the Parliament, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 8/20/1988 | Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed. |
| 10/24/1904 | Lalchand Hirachand, famous industialist, was born. |
| 2/28/1967 | General Election ( 4th) of India ends. |
| 6/23/1971 | Sriprakash, freedom fighter, prolific writer and member of the AICC, passed away. |
| 11/29/1959 | Govind Sakharam Serdesai, Jagirdar Raobahadur, passed away. |
| 6/23/1958 | Tamil leaders in Madras call on Nehru to lobby for better treatment of Ceylon's Tamil minority. |
| 1/21/1997 | Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta. |
| 2/26/1857 | First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry. |
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