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Historical Event on 7/17/1987
V. P. Singh announces resignation from Congress; R. Venkataraman elected President of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/5/1999 | India's Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World. |
| 5/1/1972 | All fuel coal mines were nationalised. |
| 9/9/1944 | Mahatma Gandhi conducted several talks between 9th September to 27the September with Mohammed Ali Jinnah regarding Pakistan. |
| 7/1/1929 | Ramchandra Ganpatrao Shinde, educationist, was born at Burhanpur, (M.P.). |
| 1/17/1925 | Abdul Hafeez Kardar, cricketer (Pakistan 1st Test captain, previously played for India), was born in Lahore. |
| 6/22/1993 | The centre bans the use of 12 pesticides. |
| 6/22/1993 | Firuz Shah Tughluq, the third emperor of Delhi, died at the age of 83. |
| 5/18/1912 | Narayan Govind Chitre, with the help of R. P. Tipnis and Cameraman Johnson, produced a 8000 ft. long theatrical film 'Pundalik', which was directed by Ramchandra Torney alias Dada Saheb Torne. The entire film was shot in a theatre at Mangaldas Wadi in Bombay, where the Sangit Mandali, a professional theatre group, was performing a play 'Pundalik'. The film was released on May, 18 in the Coronation Cinematograph at Girgaum, Bombay. |
| 4/17/1926 | Chandrashekhar, eighth Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 4/8/1929 | Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs on the Assembly Hall. |
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