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Historical Event on 5/17/1857
Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1966 | Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union. |
| 1/22/1998 | Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra. |
| 5/24/1933 | Hemchandra Tukaram Dani, cricketer (Test Ind vs Pak, 1-19, ct 1, DNB), was born in Dudhani, Maharashtra. |
| 1/30/1971 | Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore. |
| 1/29/1976 | Parliamenentary Committee on official language constituted. The Committee has since then submitted six parts of its report and Presidential orders have been issued on first five parts of it. The sixth part is in print. |
| 6/27/2000 | Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, launches National Initiative for child protection of which childline is an integral part. |
| 12/20/1929 | The Indian State Air Service, an extension of Imperial Airways' routes, opens its inaugural service from Karachi to Delhi. |
| 12/19/1994 | Critical stores of IAF were de-inducted by AN-124 contracted by UN. Bulky stores were brought by ship Mogadishu. |
| 6/27/1999 | India won the four-nation under-21 women's hockey title, defeating England in the final at the Kean University, New Jersey. |
| 1/14/1843 | Fakir Mohan Senapati, great writer and nationalist, was born. |
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