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Historical Event on 6/17/1839
Lord William Bentik, governor general of India, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/17/1991 | Krishnabai Mote, famous author and social worker, passed away. |
| 6/20/1756 | A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here. |
| 10/17/1998 | Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in. |
| 11/21/1921 | Prince of Wales visited India and Congress observed all India strike. |
| 11/6/1993 | First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly. |
| 11/10/1909 | Gandhiji replies to Tolstoy, sends his biography by Doke. |
| 5/23/1923 | Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52), was born in Calcutta. |
| 1/15/1947 | Pritish Nandi, famous journalist, was born. Abul Kalam Azad became Minister of Education in the Government of India. |
| 12/9/1825 | Tula Ram Rao, one of the revolutionary heroes of the 1857 and Sepoy Mutiny, was born. |
| 5/10/1909 | Bellari Shammanna Keshvan, internationally famous librarian, was born. |
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