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Historical Event on 8/17/1998
The Government issues a notification banning the use of quinacrine, a controversial female contraceptive and sterilization agent.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/26/1966 | 34 national leaders charge Indira Gandhi's rule is 'constitutional dictatorship'. |
| 7/22/1981 | India's first experimental geo-stationary communication satellite 'Apple' started working which was launched on June 19, 1981. |
| 2/12/1932 | Roby James Francis D. Silva, great industrialist, artist and designer, was born at Bombay. |
| 5/19/1971 | Indian Navy's first submarine station started at 'Veer Bahu' in Visakhapatanam. |
| 11/6/1937 | Yashwant BipinBihari Sinha was born in Patna (Bihar). |
| 10/25/1990 | Captain Sangma, first Chief Minister of Meghalaya, died. |
| 10/25/1990 | Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2). |
| 1/2/1994 | Warden's in Arambaug, India lead about a fifty hungry and bruised elephants into a forest for temporary shelter. After a week, the herd strayed from a santuary, stampeding villagers and terrorising peasants. |
| 2/1/1967 | Victor Paramjyoti, famous Indian music director, composer and critic, passed away. |
| 3/16/1993 | Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people. |
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