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Historical Event on 2/17/1948
Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was re-designated as the 5th Battalion the 8th Gorkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles).
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| 8/5/1999 | The Global Peace March demands demilitarisation of the entire planet. |
| 7/31/1991 | Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 5/8/1933 | Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables. |
| 4/23/1751 | Gilbert Aliat Minto, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 2/23/1932 | The N. W. Frontier province is created. |
| 2/23/1990 | 5-member Ministry headed by R. K. Ranbir Singh in Manipur elected. |
| 10/30/1996 | Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay. |
| 4/8/1674 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj honoured Hansaji Mohite with the degree of 'Hambirrao' and appointed him as Chief General of his Army. |
| 3/19/1998 | E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran communist leader of CPM and Kerala's first Chief Minister, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 88. |
| 5/14/1907 | Muhammad Ayub Khan, Pakistani president, was born. |
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