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Historical Event on 7/17/1979

Jagjivan Ram elected Janata parliamentary party leader. Charan Singh is PM heading Janatha (S)-Congress coalition and Jagjivan Ram is leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/15/1919British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab.
6/1/1944M. V. Dhurandhar, famous master painter of Maharashtra, passed away.
12/17/1715Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army.
4/28/1993Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen.
3/13/1996Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final.
9/1/1798England signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India.
3/30/1699Guru Govind Singh the 10th Guru of Sikh's established 'Khalsa Panth'.
11/1/1950First Indigenous Steam Engine from Chitranjan Rail Factory railed out.
6/3/1992Kerala CM K. Karunakaran injured in a road accident.
6/3/1992Saint Eknath, bhagwatbhakt, passed away.