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Historical Event on 7/17/1996
Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/15/1803 | East India Company captured Orrisa state. |
| 3/15/1920 | Ranganandhan Francis, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born. |
| 4/1/1987 | Bureau of Indian Standards was changed to Indian Standards Institution. |
| 1/21/1997 | First group of bank documents relating to Bofors case handed over to Indian Government. |
| 10/21/1916 | Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat. |
| 12/6/2000 | The Supreme Court gives a clean chit to former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao upholding the trial court's order, and discharging him and former Union Minister K.K. Tewary from the 'St.Kitts forgery case'. |
| 4/9/1991 | Rajendra Mathur, editor of Hindi daily newspaper 'Navbharat Times', passed away. |
| 2/8/1986 | For the first time in the country, pre-paid taxi sevice scheme was established at New Delhi airport. |
| 1/2/1905 | Jainendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist and patriot, was born. |
| 9/23/1996 | Sitaram Kesri elected provisional president of Congress (I). |
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