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Historical Event on 8/17/1997
I K Gujral, Prime Minister, said that Queen Elizabeth should not go to Amritsar, scene of Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, during her visit to India in October.

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8/13/1995	Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar.
8/2/1942	Gandhi says that the Japanese might be welcomed in India should they invade due to current Indian discontent.
10/27/1947	Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
11/25/1956	Lal Bahadur Shastri, Railway Minister, resigns from the office or Railway Minitery, taking moral responsibility for Ayyapan rail disaster thus setting a rare example for politicians.
5/4/1923	Mrinal Sen, famous film director, was born.
12/23/1969	Armstrong and Aldrin collected Moon rock, which was kept on exhibition in New Delhi.
3/20/2000	Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.
1/1/1664	Shivaji assumes royal title.
7/19/1969	Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.
10/27/1999	P.M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

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Historical Event on 8/17/1997 I K Gujral, Prime Minister, said that Queen Elizabeth should not go to Amritsar, scene of Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, during her visit to India in October.

Historical Event on 8/17/1997
I K Gujral, Prime Minister, said that Queen Elizabeth should not go to Amritsar, scene of Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, during her visit to India in October.