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Historical Event on 9/17/1997

Kalpakkam Mini Reactor (KAMINI), the only U-233 fuelled operating reactor in the world, attains maximum capacity of 30 KW.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/24/1996SC holds that bank managers acting beyond their authority in allowing overdrafts and passing cheques would be amounted to committing misconduct.
11/10/1938Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul.
8/25/1997Forest outlaw Veerappan seeks more time to decide on his surrender as per the terms of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka government.
9/5/1990Rajya Sabha approves the Prasar Bharati Bill rejecting by voice vote three motions moved by the Congress(I) to refer the Bill to a joint select committee.
9/19/2000Karnam Malleswari adds a glorious chapter to Indian sports history at the Sydney International Convention Centre by becoming the first woman to gain an Olympic medal.
5/8/1992Gul Mahomed, cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), passed away.
5/16/1945Prahraj Gopalchandra, modern author of Oria language, passed away.
1/15/1898Nanasaheb Ramji Tawde, educationist and scientist, was born at Taluq Malvan, Maharashtra.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
8/17/1998The Government issues a notification banning the use of quinacrine, a controversial female contraceptive and sterilization agent.