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Historical Event on 12/17/1978
Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/8/1999 | Furore in the Lok Sabha over RJD President Laloo Prasad Yadav's daughter topping the MBBS exam. |
| 9/27/1907 | Bhagat Singh, the legendary revolutionary, was born at Banga in West Punjab, Layalpur now in Pakistan. |
| 7/15/1969 | Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh, Padma Vibhushan, DFC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. After retirement he was appointed as the Ambassador in Switzerland. |
| 3/30/1919 | Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act. |
| 7/18/1996 | Union Finance Ministry gives final clearance to the Enron power project in terms of issuance of counter-guarantee. |
| 4/27/1942 | Gandhi condemns stationing of U.S. troops in India. |
| 12/14/1936 | Kamalkant Bhattacharya, Assamese thinker and author, passed away. |
| 6/5/1996 | Kubernath Rai, well known writer, passed away. |
| 2/28/1884 | Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, passed away. |
| 11/16/1993 | Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender. |
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