17 December - Day in History of India and Importance - Birthdays of Famous Indians

1715 - Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered

1929 - Bhagat Singh and Rajguru killed Sanders
1933 - Lala Amarnath scored a century on his debut.

1961 - Operation launched to liberate Goa, Daman,Diu from Portuguese rule
1971 - Ceasefire between India and Pakistan
1990 - N. Janardana Reddy was sworn as CM of Andhra Pradesh
1995 - Arms dropped in Purulia, West Bengal from foreign airplane

2011
Barack Obama named Nancy Powell as next envoy to India
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/nancy-powell-us-ambassador-to-india-barack-obama/1/164666.html

Birthdays

John Abraham - Hindi film actor,
Ritesh Deshmukh - Hindi film actor,
Jaya Sudha (1958)

Death

1645 - Noorjehan Begum
1959 - Pattabhi Sitaramayya


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