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Historical Event on 11/17/1973

Mother Pondicherry, greatest teacher and religious leader, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/10/1949Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980).
10/20/1991Pandit Kalyandas Mahaprasad, famous Kathak dancer, died.
3/2/1984Mother Teresa University inaugurated by Mother herself at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu.
8/8/1923Floods on the Ganges and Jumna rivers cause loss of life in Benares, India.
10/1/1995Aditya Birla, famous industrialist, died.
9/10/1924K.T. Gopalkrishnan, famous Hindi writer, was born at Azhicode.
1/1/1894Satyendranath Bose, Professor and famous Indian physics expert, was born, He worked with Albert Einstein for some time.
7/30/1997Madras High Court restrains, by an interim injunction, the foreign universities/institutions having offices in India from awarding or conferring any degree on Indian students.
5/5/1916Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab.
5/1/1886May Day was first observed in Chicago, USA. Work, Social activities, Rest, for 8 Hours.