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Historical Event on 2/17/1931
Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".

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12/17/1999	Pramod Mahajan, Parliamentary Affairs Minister, announces that Women's Bill will be introduced in the Lok Sabha.
10/3/1831	Britishers captured Mysore.
9/8/1897	Lokmanya Tilak charged in anti-national activity case.
7/19/1925	Dinesh Singh, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Kalakankar (U.P).
1/6/1972	America declared Naval Drill in the Indian Ocean.
12/27/1999	PSCB's Prathima Kumari shattered the National clean and jerk mark twice in the women's 58-kg class on the second day of the senior national weightlifting championship in Kalyan.
5/26/1999	IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
10/2/1954	Chandernagar, former under French possession, was made a part of West Bengal.
9/22/2000	Kerala High Court suspends the sentence awarded by the Kottayam Special Court on 32 accused in the Suryanelli rape case.
9/1/1988	Fatte Singrao Gaekwad of Baroda, former Member of Parliament, passed away.

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