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Historical Event on 12/17/1910
Keki Khursedji Tarapore, cricketer (0-72 in his only Test for India), was born in Bombay.
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| 1/30/1996 | Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe. |
| 3/16/1997 | The first batch of three Russian-made Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft reaches India. |
| 4/14/1907 | P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born. |
| 10/6/2000 | Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress chief, withdraws her resignation from the Union Cabinet of Ministers. |
| 1/14/1851 | Peshwa Bajirao Raghunath, last Peshwa of Marathas, passed away at Brahmawart. |
| 9/10/1976 | An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan. |
| 6/8/1915 | Geeta Rahasya', written by Lokmanya Tilak, published. |
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