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Historical Event on 12/17/2000
The 13-day nationwide postal strike called off.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1905 | Pankaj Malik, music director, was born. |
| 6/23/1757 | The Battle of Plassey started between Robert Clive, incharge of British army, and Nawab of Bengal, Siraj -Ud -Daula. In this battle Robert Clive won control of Bengal. |
| 1/31/1986 | Shri Vishwanath More, famous music director, passed away. |
| 6/9/1949 | Kiran Bedi, the first woman Indian Police Service Officer, was born in Amritsar, Punjab. |
| 3/31/1904 | British slaughter hundreds of Tibetans. |
| 4/24/1995 | K. Karunakaran elected to Rajya Sabha. |
| 11/12/1930 | First 'Round Table Conference' started in London. Only Muslim League party was present in the conference and there were no representative of Congress. 16 Indian Kings, 23 British representatives and other 56 Indians took part in this conference. The Muslim League consisted of Sir Agha Khan, Mohammed Ali Jauhar, Quaid-e-Azam, Sir Mohammed Shafi, Fazl-ul-Haq, Chaudhary Zafarullah and Ghulam Hussain. |
| 7/10/1992 | SROSS-C placed in orbit. Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2A), first indigenously-built satellite of second-generation INSAT series launched from Kourore. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service. |
| 4/27/2000 | Arun Bharat Ram takes over as the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry. |
| 3/30/1993 | India forgoes Narmada loan balance because of World Bank's strict regulations. |
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