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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 |
9/8/1911 | Anand Gopal Sheorey, great Hindi writer, litterateur and journalist, was born at Sausar in Madhya Pradesh. |
9/16/2000 | Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics. |
4/30/1996 | Re-polling in 445 stations in six states. |
4/16/1930 | Baba Kanshi Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer, was arrested by British police. |
3/28/1926 | Pahelam Ratanji ""Polly"" Umrigar, cricketer (Indian batsman & captain), was born in Sholapur, Maharashtra. |
11/8/1988 | At 0910 hrs, One - O - Four's moments of glory were frozen for eternity when it received the coveted colours from the then President of Indian R Venkatraman. |
5/17/1857 | Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India. |
3/20/1977 | General Election (6th) of India ends. First time Indian National Congress Party lost in India. |
9/14/1949 | Hindi declared the national language by the Constituent Assembly after a three-day debate. |
9/20/1878 | Hindu"", an English weekly in Madras with G. S. Aiyer as its Editor, was first published with only 80 copies. |
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