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Historical Event on 4/17/1941

Office of Price Administration was formed which handled the rationing of essential commodities.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/17/1980V. S. Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on one foot for continuous 33 hrs.
9/4/1990An all-party meeting refuses to endorse the decision to implement Mandal Commission Report according to which 27\% jobs are reserved for backward communities.
9/25/1919Rayat Educational Institute (Rayat Shikshan Sanstha) was established.
8/15/1997The Government bans doctors from determining the sex of the foetus.
5/22/1970Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'.
9/17/1937Sitakant Mahapatra, 1933 Gyanpeeth awardee and famous Orria poet, was born.
9/6/1965Full scale warfare broke out all along the international border between West Pakistan and India. Pakistani troops advanced towards the Indian town of Akhnur in Kashmir and Pakistani paratroopers raided Punjab.
9/29/2000A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt.
12/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee questions Pakistan's decision to hand over part of occupied Kashmir to China and says the area belongs to India.
3/2/1997Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, IMF, congratulates India on its pursuit of steady and higher economic growth.