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Historical Event on 6/17/1756
Nawab Sira-ud-Daulah attacked on Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/18/1988 | V.P.Singh defeats Congress rival Sunil Shastri in Allahabad Lok Sabha election. |
| 11/17/1973 | Mother Pondicherry, greatest teacher and religious leader, died. |
| 4/9/1986 | First University in India devoted to hygiene established at Vijaywada. |
| 7/25/1995 | India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95). |
| 5/25/1996 | Maharashta govt. announces decision to revive Sri Krishna Commission set up to probe the 1993 Mumbai riots. |
| 8/8/1990 | Violent protests rock Bihar against Mandal Commission Report implementation. |
| 8/2/1984 | 32 people died in a bomb explosion at Meenambakkam Airport. |
| 9/15/1862 | Gaurishankar Hirachand Oza, famous historian, was born. |
| 4/9/1994 | C. Rajeshwara Rao, 80, former General Secretary of Communist Party of India, passed away in Hyderabad. |
| 2/18/1931 | Swraj Paul, Indian and British industrialist and multi-millionaire (Caparo), was born. |
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