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Historical Event on 1/17/1989

Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/28/1846British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal.
10/31/1920Inaugural session of the All India Trade Union Congress was conducted in Bombay.
2/9/1942Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India.
2/17/1968Dr. Kailas Nath Katju, freedom fighter, politician, leader, Governor of Orissa and West Bengal, passed away.
4/11/1999The DRDO has successfully flight tested AGNI-11 with a range of 2000 km, using solid propellant rocket motors in both stages and rail mobile launcher system from its new launch complex in the Orissa Coast. With this launch the country has reached the point of operationalisation of AGNI-11 as a weapon system. (1-1-2000).
9/14/1803Lord Lake was captured Delhi.
11/15/199237 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur.
12/17/1715Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army.
12/24/2000Viswanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win a world chess title in the world chess championship in Taheran.
2/15/1976The Division of Publication & Information was established in I.C.M.R. Headquarters.