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Historical Event on 1/17/1925
Abdul Hafeez Kardar, cricketer (Pakistan 1st Test captain, previously played for India), was born in Lahore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/27/1998 | India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final. |
| 4/24/1929 | First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off. |
| 12/12/1925 | Dattatreya Gajanan Phadkar alias ""Dattu"" Phadkar, cricketer (pace bowler all-rounder for India), Kolhapur, Maharastra, was born. |
| 10/18/1879 | Branch of 'Theosophical Panth' established in India. |
| 7/15/1980 | Gajanan Vishwanath Ketkar, editor of `Kesri' and `Maratha', passed away. |
| 5/30/1955 | Narayan Malhar Joshi, father of Indian Worker's Movement, passed away. |
| 1/31/1976 | Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, PVSM, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 11/1/1956 | Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved. |
| 12/6/1956 | Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Babasaheb), great social worker, politician and writer of Indian constitution, passed away in Bombay. |
| 11/9/1904 | Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani |
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