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Historical Event on 6/17/1933
The civil disobedience campaign ended.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/27/1992 | Amjad Khan, famous film actor, died. |
| 8/25/1997 | 10,000 people residing in low lying areas in Gujarat shifted to safer places following incessant rains for two days. Death toll mounts to 265. |
| 7/16/1909 | Aruna Asaf Ali, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Kalka in Haryana. |
| 8/10/1995 | Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
| 10/10/1964 | Gurudutt, famous film actor, died |
| 12/1/1965 | Border Security Force was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the International Border with Pakistan. |
| 8/29/1993 | Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will. |
| 2/4/1944 | Japanese attack Indian Seventh Army at Burma |
| 7/26/1994 | Government rejects JPC report on securities scandal. |
| 1/1/1949 | A ceasefire eventually came into force. Under UN supervision, a negotiated Cease Fire Line was drawn up on an actual holding basis pending future settlements. This meandering, and at places militarily illogical line, ran some 700 kilometres from Chhamb in the South to a map reference point NJ 9842 in Ladakh in the North. The fighting was to continue for 15 months, with heavy RIAF involvement throughout, but despite being continuously on an operational footing throughout this period, the re-organisation and modernisation of the service continued unabated. |
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