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Historical Event on 6/17/1862

Lord Charles Jhon Canning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), died.

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1/23/1809Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Khinda village in the north of Sambalpur at Orissa.
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3/6/1915Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan.
5/18/1988The ten-day Golden Temple siege at Amritsar ends with the surrender of 46 militant Sikhs.
1/28/1902Gandhiji left for Rangoon visit. Stays for a month with Gokhale at Calcutta. Returns to Rajkot and settles down to practise.
4/16/1997Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99.
12/16/1924Nissim Ezekiel, educationist and author, was born.
1/14/1990India and Maldives scrap visas.
9/24/1922Jugal Mondal, social worker and politician, was born at Howrah.
1/8/1925Mohan Rakesh, veteran Hindi playright, was born. His noted books are ""Aadhe Adhure"" and ""Aashaad Ka Ek Din"".