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Historical Event on 3/17/1994

Wali Mohammad Itto, former Speaker of J&K Assembly shot dead by militants.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/28/1975Netherlands gives independence to Dutch Guyana, which becomes Suriname; one third of Hindus (descendants of Indian plantation workers) emigrate to Netherlands for better social and economic conditions.
12/14/1984First MIG 27M aircraft assembled by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. takes off.
11/29/1991Industrial and bank strike called by the left-oriented trade unions to oppose the new industrial and economic policies.
11/5/1915Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born.
11/20/1907Railroad workers strike in India.
3/6/1995Arun Tamhankar, great journalist, died.
1/27/1927Michael Craig, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror), was born in Pune.
7/16/1990O.P.Chautala resigns following directive from JD.
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
7/15/1986India protests against China's intrusion of six to seven km into the Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh.