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Historical Event on 9/17/1934
Gandhiji announced his decision to retire from politics from October one to engage himself in the development of village industries, Harijan service and education through basic crafts.
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| 9/2/1956 | Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India). |
| 9/11/1906 | Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'. |
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| 7/2/1929 | Amritlal Basu, famous Bengali playwright, died. |
| 4/26/1995 | Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne. |
| 1/1/1992 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Space Year"". |
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| 10/13/1911 | Sister Nivedita, follower of Vivekanand, died. |
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