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Historical Event on 9/17/1956
Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) established.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/27/1952 | United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader. |
| 12/5/1950 | Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India. |
| 3/15/1931 | M.I.Mohammad Ghose, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-80, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 4/19/1976 | Indira Gandhi proposes a resumption of ties with Pakistan in New Delhi. |
| 8/13/1913 | Khawtin Khuma, politician, was born at Phuldungsei, Tripura. |
| 8/21/1981 | Dattatrey Balkrishna Kalelkar ""Kakasaheb"", freedom fighter, passed away at the age of 96. |
| 4/13/1984 | India beat Pak by 58 runs to win the first Cricket Asia Cup in Sharjah. |
| 8/21/1972 | A law was passed for protecting wild animals, including lions and tigers, from extinction. |
| 1/12/1869 | Dr. Bhagavan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur, was born at Varanasi. |
| 7/1/1909 | Madanlal Dhingra, revolutionary, assassinated Sir William Curzon Wyllie, a prominent Anglo-Indian, at the Imperial Institute in London. |
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