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Historical Event on 12/17/1934
Khandesh Gandhi Mir Sukrulla, great patriot and freedom fighter, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/23/1897 | Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War. |
| 6/30/1995 | CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan. |
| 1/18/1995 | Kumble takes 16-99 in a match for Karnataka vs Kerala. |
| 1/18/1995 | Rana Sangram Singh, King of Mewad, attacked on Mughal Emperor Babur near Kanwa at Agra. |
| 11/25/1879 | Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement. |
| 5/8/1901 | British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population. |
| 1/28/1846 | British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal. |
| 4/8/1991 | Prafulla Kumar Mahanta,Assam CM, steps down as party chief. |
| 7/24/1994 | Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India. |
| 3/28/1978 | Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997), was born. |
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