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Historical Event on 12/17/1971
Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir and end of Indo-Pak war.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/26/2001 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Ustad Bismillah Khan. |
| 8/9/1996 | Unofficial estimates put black money in the country at Rs. 70,000 crore, i.e. 6\% of GDP. |
| 1/6/1942 | Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world. |
| 3/30/1949 | New Union of Greater Rajasthan was ceremonially inaugurated by Patel when the existing Union of Rajasthan was joined by four premier states of Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer. Hiralal Shastri became its first Chief Minister. |
| 10/2/1997 | At least 50 Pakistan soldiers were killed and several injured in a retaliatory firing by Indian troops in Nowgam, Uri and Kupwara sectors. Firing had been intermittent along LoC. |
| 5/13/1994 | Telecom sector opened to private companies under the new national policy announced in Parliament. |
| 1/19/1892 | Chintaman Vinayak Joshi, famous Marathi comedy writer, was born. |
| 6/29/1992 | Congress (I) nominates K. R. Narayanan for the Vice-Presidentship. |
| 12/20/1978 | Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment. |
| 2/7/2000 | Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP. |
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