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Historical Event on 1/3/1917

Kartarsingh Duggal, famous Punjabi story-writer and novelist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/25/1930Mehdi Baqer, great educationist, was born at Faizabad in UP.
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
8/8/1923Floods on the Ganges and Jumna rivers cause loss of life in Benares, India.
6/9/1998Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days.
10/14/1947Narsingh Chintaman Kelkar, great litterateur, politician and editor, died.
10/3/1977Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in New Delhi.
12/29/1997Sonia Gandhi stepped into active politics.
2/11/1979Shankarrao Narayanrao Mohite Patil `Sahakari Maharshi' passed away.
3/31/1986Bombay Telephone Nigam renamed as Mahanagar Telephone Nigam.