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Historical Event on 3/17/2000

V.C. Pande, Bihar Governor, accords sanction to the CBI to prosecute RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in a disproportionate assets case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/17/2000Tulsidas, Mahakavi Saint, was born.
6/9/1986First AIDS death reported from a private hospital in Mumbai.
1/23/1814Sir Alexander Canningham, Indian Archeologist, was born.
10/14/1910Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
11/18/1972Tiger was adopted as India's 'National Animal'
2/15/1924Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar.
1/1/1920P.M. Nadagouda, politician, was born at Mysore, Chitwadgi.
12/15/1943The Vengeance suffered numerous defects and teething troubles, necessitating temporary withdrawal from the two IAF squadrons, but the problems were eventually mitigated if not eradicated, and No. 8 Sqn flew its first operational Vengeance sorties against Japanese targets from Double Moorings, Chittagong.
1/31/1998D. R. Karthikeyan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/03/98).
10/10/1909Nagarwala Noshirvan Dorab, cricket umpire of five Tests, was born in Maharashtra.