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Historical Event on 2/17/1976

Urban Ceilings Act comes into force.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/27/1990Central Govt. introduces fresh direct tax proposals to raise additional Rs. 810 crore by raising income tax and fixing limits for deduction of depreciation.
5/30/1950Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
8/3/1984Bomb attack at Madras airport claims 32 lives.
4/24/1993Congress dissidents K. N. Singh, Natwar Singh, K. L. Fotedar and Shiela Dikshit suspended.
3/30/1993Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
10/25/1951First General Election of India begins.
6/6/1922Gopalan Morappakam Joysam, cricketer, was born at Maduranthakan, in Tamil Nadu. He received the Padmashree in 1964.
1/24/1996H.K.L. Bhagat, senior Congress politician and former minister, arrested in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case.
1/24/1997Justice Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi and Justice Sukhdev Singh Kang appointed Governors of Tamil Nadu and Kerala respectively.
6/9/1992Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP.