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Historical Event on 6/17/1950
Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/8/1906 | Prannath Thapar, former General of India, was born. |
| 10/6/1974 | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great freedom fighter, barrister, leader, politician, nationalist and member of the Lok Sabha, passed away. He resigned as the defence minister soon after the Chinese aggression. |
| 10/26/1937 | Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, famous music director, was born. |
| 2/27/1912 | Vishnu Waman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj', great Marathi poet, play-wright, novelist and Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Awardee, was born. |
| 8/27/1990 | The Cabinet Committee on political affairs decides to put a proposal before the Parliament providing five to ten per cent of Central Government jobs reserved for economically weaker sections. |
| 11/9/1913 | Weekly 'Pratap' was published from Kanpur which was edited by Ganesh Shankar Vidyrarthi. |
| 12/15/1957 | 60 Harijans enter the Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi. |
| 7/28/1924 | Many deaths were reported and several villages were destroyed due to floods in the south. |
| 1/31/1996 | Asia's first Sports University inaugurated in Pune. |
| 4/27/1996 | General Election (11th) of India begins. |
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