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Historical Event on 8/17/1932
V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.

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9/18/1927	Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce was established.
7/19/1925	Dinesh Singh, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Kalakankar (U.P).
1/25/1950	The post of the Governor General of India was abolished.
1/5/1995	PM gives valedictory address at the 8th World Tamil Conference in Madurai.
5/28/1992	Indo-US naval exercises begin.
1/17/1922	T. A. Pai, former Central Minister and bank expert, was born.
1/10/1896	Gangadhar Kelkar, founder of famous Raja Kelkar Museum at Pune Dinkar, was born.
10/1/1997	Bus with 70 people fell into a stream near Cuddappah.
10/2/1972	Broadcasting of Mumabi Doordarshan started.
3/12/1930	Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.

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Historical Event on 8/17/1932 V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.

Historical Event on 8/17/1932
V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born.