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Historical Event on 8/17/1761
William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/12/1930 | Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods. |
| 9/29/1906 | Chhajju Ram, social worker and teacher, was born at Manawar, Chhamb. |
| 8/18/1991 | 12 LTTE militants commit suicide. |
| 4/9/1993 | Lt. Gen. B.C. Joshi to be the next army chief. |
| 3/30/1993 | Air Time Committee Chief P.S. Deodhar and its members resign in protest against the implementation of the metro channel of Doordarshan. |
| 6/3/1993 | K N Venkatasubramanian,IOC Chairman, suspended for leaking information about oil purchase plans to international dealers. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 8/30/1979 | Akbar left for Agra when he received the report of widespread rebellion. He arrived in Ahmedabad by forced marches on the eleventh day. |
| 5/14/1978 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away. |
| 11/1/1913 | Ghadar Movement started at San Francisco. |
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