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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
5/4/1854The first stamp was officially issued from Calcutta where the first modern post office was established.
1/22/1986Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
6/3/1992Kerala CM K. Karunakaran injured in a road accident.
11/13/1998Tendulkar blazes as India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah beating Zimbabwe in the final.
8/2/1970Smt. Chonira Beliappa Muthamma, India's first woman ambassador, was deputed at Hungary.
12/31/1995K.P.S. Gill, DGP of Punjab, retires from service.
7/12/1932The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir.
6/23/1930The Simon Commission recommends a federal India and the separation of Burma at London.
1/11/1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
11/16/2000The Government to reduce equity holding in nationalised banks from 51 per cent to 33 per cent.
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