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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
3/21/1996PSLV-D3 launched successfully.
2/26/1901The notes of Rs twenty denomination were issued with two issuing circles. These notes had four numeric denominations.
7/1/1879Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department.
3/12/1988After 58 years in the commemoration of Dandi March, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi performed the 32 kms Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram.
2/15/1998Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati were ranked No. 2 when they won Dubai Open.
3/12/1988Samresh Basu, famous Bengali writer, passed away.
3/21/1997Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake Open billiards in Chennai.
12/27/1962India and Pakistan begin negotiations over Kashmir.
12/8/1985The first summit was held at Dhaka. (7 0r 8).
9/13/1997Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites.