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Historical Event on 6/17/1991

Congress and its allies secure absolute majority in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Haryana Assemblies.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/5/1922Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc.
12/26/1989Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.
4/13/1940Najma Heptulla, Vice President of Rajya Sabha, was born.
10/6/1997Abhijit Kunte wins Asian Junior Chess title.
4/23/1968Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away.
1/16/1966Sadhu Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, noted thinker and saint poet, great orator, professor and prolific writer, died at Pune.
10/28/1998Ghulam Ahmed, former Indian cricket captain, died in Hyderabad.
8/11/1954Madireddy Venkateshwar Narasimha Rao, cricketer (Indian leg-spin all-rounder 1978-79), was born in Secunderabad.
7/21/1975Hindi Post Guards was established by Government.
9/10/1996Central Ethical Committee of ICMR on Human Research, constituted under the Chairmanship of Justice (Retired) M.N. Venkatachaliah, held its first meeting. Several sub committees were constituted to address specific topics viz. Epidemiological Research, Clinical Evaluation of Products to be Used on Humans, Organ Transplantation; Human Genetics, etc.