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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
12/1/1997At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.
3/30/1997Congress Party withdraws support to the 10-month old H. D. Deve Gowda Government at the centre, and stakes its claim to form an alternative government.
4/22/1870Vladimir IIyich Lenin, revolutionary freedom fighter and politician, was born at Simbrisk, Volga.
10/2/1979Operation (Milk) Flood-II launched.
11/1/1999Soli Sorbajee is re-appointed the Attorney General.
4/20/1989President's rule imposed in Karnataka.
10/15/1946Muslim League decides to participate in the Interim Government.
5/1/1879Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission.
5/11/1999Centre removes the West Bengal Governor A. R. Kidwai. The Arunachal Pradesh Governor Mata Prasad had also been asked to step down.
6/18/1993The 14th national council of the BJP at Bangalore swears by Hindutva.