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Historical Event on 10/17/1994

Seshan's controversial biography ''DMK'' obtains stay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/4/1990Lata Mangeshkar wins 1989 Dada Saheb Phalke award.
6/17/1976Montreal Olympics opens.
5/4/1849Jyotirindranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur and poet, was born.
3/16/1997The first batch of three Russian-made Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft reaches India.
11/2/1971Roberto Fernandes, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Goa.
12/11/1971The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.
12/16/2000Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu.
6/10/1957Bhai Vir Singh, great Punjabi poet, novelist, social reformer, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, died.
3/10/1993The 12-day-old caretaker ministry in Tripura led by Samir Ranjan Burman resigns.
6/4/1997Special Judge Ajit Bharihoke discharges former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao and former Union Minister Prof. K. K. Tewary in St. Kitts forgery case for lack of sufficient evidence.