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Historical Event on 1/17/1997
Supreme Court bans all non-forest activities including running of saw mills and mining in forest areas.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/17/1941 | Office of Price Administration was formed which handled the rationing of essential commodities. |
| 6/6/1969 | Sunil Bandacharya Joshi, cricketer (Indian Test left-arm spinner 1996), was born in Gadag. |
| 10/3/1913 | Sudangsu Abinash Banerjee, 'Montu', cricketer, (5 wickets, 1 test vs West Indies) was born in Calcutta. |
| 7/18/1993 | Rail, road traffic disrupted. |
| 1/8/1908 | Mary Nadia Wadia (Fearless Nadia), great actress, was born. |
| 9/27/2000 | Gurucharan Singh goes down fighting to Andri Fedtchouk of Ukraine in the 81 Kg bout of the Olympics boxing. |
| 9/29/1994 | Cable Television Regulation Ordinance issued. |
| 8/16/1958 | Pather Panchali' won the top five awards, including feature length motion picture, and got a honorary mention at the Vancouver International Film Festival. |
| 8/11/1999 | The last total solar eclipse of the millenium was seen in northern parts of India and France. This eclipse lasted for 2 min and 23 sec. |
| 9/8/1995 | Harcharan Singh Brar sworn in as the Chief Minister of Punjab. |
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