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Historical Event on 6/17/1961
The HF-24 Marut supersonic fighter, designed by German engineer Kurt Tank, makes its maiden flight.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/25/1992 | BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven. |
| 3/1/1950 | The population figure for India is announced as 347,340,000. |
| 3/26/1990 | Pratap Singh Rane,Goa CM, resigns. |
| 12/6/1907 | Revolutionaries looted Chingaripota station. |
| 1/19/1910 | Vinayak Damodar Karnaki (Master Vinayak), famous Marathi actor, director and producer, was born. |
| 3/15/1831 | First Marathi Almanac (Panchang) started by Ganpat Krishnaji. |
| 12/15/1957 | 60 Harijans enter the Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi. |
| 2/16/1992 | Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated. |
| 11/10/1922 | S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka. |
| 2/21/1987 | Pakistan President Gen. Zia visits India. |
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