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Historical Event on 8/17/1932
V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.
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| 7/21/1999 | The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA. |
| 10/28/1997 | Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar (77), Veena maestro, household name among Carnatic music lovers, passed away in Bangalore. |
| 4/26/1992 | Medha Patkar arrested in Gujarat as the third Annual Goldman Environmental Prize of $ 60000 is awarded to her. |
| 1/16/1620 | Amarsingh I, Rajput's guhilot lineage king of Mewad, died. |
| 12/10/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. |
| 1/21/1922 | Juda Reuben, cricket Test umpire for 10 tests from 1969-77, was born in Mumbai. |
| 5/13/1998 | India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan. |
| 9/7/1997 | Banned Maoist Communist Centre guns down at least 30 CPI (M) liberation activists, including district committee members and workers, at Ankendar village, 40 km from the district headquarters of Chatra in Bihar. |
| 4/18/1970 | Dr. Dharmendra of the Indian Council of Medical Research awarded the Damien-Duttan Award for outstanding work in leprosy. |
| 9/19/1990 | Planning Commission announces 8th Five-Year Plan proposals with a total outlay of Rs. 610,000 crore. |
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