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Historical Event on 7/17/1974

J.P. Narain leads an agitation for dissolution of the Bihar Assembly.

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4/2/2000Guru Granth Sahib is a juristic person and can hold property, says the apex court in a judgment of ''far-reaching consequences and great significance''.
12/23/1959Edward Fredrick Lindlewood Halifax ""Irwin Lord"", English viscount and Governor General of India (1925-1931), died at the age of 78.
12/5/2000Postal staff go on a nationwide indefinite strike which the Government termed as 'illegal'.
12/6/2000Bishop Vinod Peter, National Christian Council of India president and church of North India moderator, and Rajasthan CNI Bishop Gerald Andrews die in a car accident near Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
1/25/1989Motilal Vora sworn in as CM of Madhya Pradesh.
8/15/1998Golden jubilee celebrations of the Indian Independence ends.
7/27/1994Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses.
12/1/1997At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.
1/15/1971Dinanath Damodar Dalal, great artist, passed away.
1/16/1901Mahadeo Govind Ranade, eminent social worker and thinker, passed away.