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Historical Event on 2/17/1998
Delhi-Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy super-league match in Chennai was abandoned owing to pitch tampering.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/5/1993 | K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Andhra Pradesh's CM, defeats TDP's Renuka Chowdhary by 31,611 votes in the Panyam Assembly election. |
| 3/12/1911 | Daman Div Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, was born. |
| 5/28/1989 | Kerala diocese of Marathakavalli was the first Christian priest in India. |
| 4/20/1965 | First Indian team led by M. S. Kohli ascends the Everest. |
| 2/27/1993 | Rupee made fully convertible in Man Mohan Singh's third successive budget. |
| 4/8/1953 | Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away. |
| 6/26/1997 | India declares its chemical weapon stockpiles and storage facilities as part of its obligations as signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention. |
| 1/16/1966 | Sadhu Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, noted thinker and saint poet, great orator, professor and prolific writer, died at Pune. |
| 3/27/1942 | Gandhiji meets Sir Stafford Cripps in New Delhi; later declares Cripps proposals to be a ""post-dated cheque"". |
| 3/13/1991 | President R. Venkataraman dissolves the Lok Sabha. |
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