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Historical Event on 6/17/2000
Danial Latifi (83), well known jurist and senior Supreme Court advocate, died of cancer in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/14/1995 | Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court. |
| 10/10/1978 | Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'. |
| 1/19/1855 | G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born. |
| 4/29/1939 | Netaji resigned from the Congress and established his own party, the Forward Block and created a political deadlock in India. |
| 9/25/1936 | Juliet Prowse, actress (Who Killed Teddy Bear) and dancer, was born in Bombay, India. |
| 10/23/1999 | A Boeing 707 carrying Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and his entourage lands safely at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai following a suspected tyre burst. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 5/12/1955 | The PM laid the foundation stone for the National Museum. |
| 5/2/1982 | Mohun Bagan retains Federation Cup (football) beating Mafatlal at Calicut. |
| 2/10/1944 | Japanese troops take the Ngakyedauk Pass, cutting off the 7th Indian Division at Sinzweya, Burma. |
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