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Historical Event on 7/17/2000

55 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/29/1997P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, says Indian rupee will be made fully and freely convertible by year 2000.
4/13/1947Diplomatic relations between India and Russia established.
12/19/1995Unidentified aircraft drops a heap of sophisticated arms and ammunition, including AK-47 rifles, rocket launchers and anti-tank grenades in Purulia district in West Bengal.
9/23/1803British-Indian forces defeated the Marathas in the Battle of Assaye.
1/20/1999Renowned playwright Girish Karnad is selected for the 1998 Jnanpith Award.
1/12/1895Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow, saintly scientist and nobel prize winner, was born at Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh.
9/7/1998Prof. K. M. Chandy, Congress (I) leader and former Governor of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, died in Kochi at the age of 77.
2/25/1886Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave 'Narmad', social reformer and famous Gujrati litterateur, passed away.
5/23/1993PM arrives in Tashkent.
3/9/1836Navalram Lakshmiram Pandya, famous writer and Gujrati critic , was born.