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Historical Event on 6/17/1993

K. D. Dharmadhikari (Nana), veteran freedom fighter, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/13/1996Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final.
7/7/1799Ranjit Singh captured Lahore in Punjab from Sikh rulers.
2/13/1936Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai.
12/6/1897Lekhraj Kishanchand Mirchandani (Aziz), famous Sindhi poet, essay writer and critic, was born.
6/7/1996Sq. Ldr. Sanjay Thapar of IAF becomes the first Indian to jump from a parachute and hoist the national flag at the North Pole.
7/25/1955Indian Government declared in Lok Sabha that Portuguese's were asked to close their offices in New Delhi.
2/23/1996North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated.
4/18/1916Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away.
3/26/1989Eighth Antarctica Expedition returns after erecting India's second permanent manned station 'Maitri'.
11/17/1857Sir Colin Campbell, British Army Officer, managed to supress Indian Mutiny sepoys at Lucknow.