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Historical Event on 12/17/1715
Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army.
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| 6/15/1949 | Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72. |
| 10/19/1921 | Pandurangshastri Athvle, founder of 'Swadhyay Pariwar', was born. |
| 6/1/1997 | New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10. |
| 12/27/1988 | The first hot-air Cross India Balloon started its flight in Rajasthan. |
| 10/24/1933 | Govindjee, famous scientist, was born in Allahabad, U.P. He found cutting plant sections easier than dissection of animals. |
| 8/29/1994 | Tusharkanti Ghosh, world famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
| 9/29/1914 | Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries. |
| 1/26/1965 | Hindi Language is accepted as National language of India. |
| 5/12/1995 | India refused to sign NPT in its present discriminatory form. |
| 9/2/1996 | Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva. |
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