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Historical Event on 6/17/1994
Twelve opposition legislators in Sikkim resign.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/18/1938 | Shashi Kapoor, famous film producer, director, actor and dramatist, was born in Calcutta. He has made sucessful films like Junoon, Kaliyug, Heat and Dust, etc. |
| 3/21/1791 | Tipu Sultan capitulated to Lord Cornwallis. |
| 6/12/1960 | 783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi. |
| 2/25/1760 | Lord Clive left India. His successors as Governors of India were J. Holwell and H. Vansittart from July 1760 to 1765. He was re-posted to India on May 3, 1765. |
| 9/14/1820 | Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning. |
| 6/12/1997 | Sitaram Kesri elected president of Congress I (6224 votes. Sharad Pawar-888; Rajesh Pilot-354). |
| 1/12/1924 | Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune. |
| 5/4/1959 | Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China. |
| 6/12/2000 | The Government appointed S. K. Mahajan of Delhi High Court as the chairman of the one-man tribunal to adjudicate whether or not there was sufficient cause for declaring LTTE as unlawful. |
| 1/1/1897 | Girja Dayal Girish, great poet and writer, was born at Saraiyan Mahipat Singh, U.P. |
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