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Historical Event on 8/17/1761
William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/16/1978 | Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad. |
| 2/28/1989 | S. B. Chavan, Finance Minister, presents a Rs. 7337 crore-deficit budget for 1989-90. |
| 10/19/1954 | Nehru and Mao meet in Peking. |
| 11/18/1955 | Nicolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, top USSR Soviet leaders, first time came to New Delhi. |
| 9/29/1914 | Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries. |
| 11/16/1962 | Chinese troops launch a major offensive in the frontier war. |
| 7/4/1991 | Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'. |
| 8/23/1994 | Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan possessed a nuclear bomb and warned that an attack by India could start a nuclear war in Pakistan. |
| 9/19/2000 | India remains committed to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests, but we will not allow this stand to stand in the way of our protecting India's supreme natural interest,'' said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his return from the US. |
| 1/9/1919 | Theophane A. Mathias, educationist, was born. |
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