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Historical Event on 8/17/1985
Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/17/1985 | Saint Namdev passed away. |
| 11/13/1908 | Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born. |
| 2/21/1959 | Press Club of India was founded in New Delhi. |
| 9/18/1879 | Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born. |
| 2/12/1997 | Parkash Singh Badal, President, Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), sworn in as the Chief Minister of Punjab for third time. |
| 8/12/1996 | Supreme Court stays further proceedings against Narasimha Rao in Chandraswami-Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case. |
| 4/13/1994 | United Arab Emirates lost to India in its first official ODI. |
| 9/15/1926 | Vande Mataram', a lengthy feature film produced by Vande Mataram Film Co, Bombay, was prohibited on September 15 by the Censor Board on the grounds that it was an underlying attack on the prestige of University Education in India. The film, however, was cleared on December 7 after deleting the objectionable scenes. |
| 3/25/1983 | Modern oceanographic research ship of the world 'Sagar Kanya' landed first time in the sea. |
| 6/23/1992 | Tin Bigha Day protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh. |
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