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Historical Event on 1/17/1993

LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/23/2000Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.
5/8/1954Indian Government decided to integrate Chandranagar in West Bengal which was under the rule of the French.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
11/28/1890Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule died. He led a selfless life devoted to the upliftment of the lower classes of the Hindu society. He also started school for girls and for downtroddens and untouchables. He was assissted in education field by his wide Savitri Bai.
11/15/1982S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died.
12/3/1992Indian, UN Operations in Mozambique begins (ONUMOZ - Dec 92 to Oct 94)
6/16/1990GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops.
9/16/1996First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto.
3/7/199922 persons are killed and six injured when an AN-32 transport aircraft of the IAF crashes at Pappankulam near Indira Gandhi International Airport in south-west Delhi.