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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.
17 August
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1941 Bimal Jalan, the 20th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, was born.
- 1947 The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1932 Trinidadian-British writer, Sir V.S. Naipaul was born. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.
- 1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.
- 1946 George Orwell publishes Animal Farm, an anti-utopian satire that became a classic.
- 1950 Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands.
- 1978 First successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon by three Americans.
- 1982 First Compact Discs (CDs) released to the public in Germany.
- 1987 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's former right-hand man who was appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, is found dead in Spandau Prison.
- 1988 Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq is killed in an airplane crash suspected of being an assassination.
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