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Historical Event on 8/17/1985
Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/24/1976 | Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries. |
| 4/24/1993 | Congress dissidents K. N. Singh, Natwar Singh, K. L. Fotedar and Shiela Dikshit suspended. |
| 10/18/1919 | W. A. Sangma, leader of Meghalaya, was born. |
| 6/28/1883 | Shivprasad Gupta, social reformer, politician, leader, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, was born at Varanasi. |
| 1/12/1955 | Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and veteran journalist, passed away. |
| 6/30/1997 | Joginder Singh, CBI Director, was given marching orders bringing his 11-month-old controversial tenure to sudden end. R. C. Sharma, Special Director, took over. |
| 8/22/1922 | Alluri Seetaram Raju inspired and organised the tribals to wage a war against the British. Raju's army raided Chintapalli police station and there was regular warfare between him and the British forces. |
| 1/27/1967 | Maharashtra State Text book manufacturing and carriculum modification Corporation established at Pune. |
| 1/8/1927 | The first scheduled London-Delhi flight arrives after 63 hrs. Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare is on board. |
| 2/2/1982 | Mohanlal Purushottamdas Sukhadia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, freedom fighter, passed away. He was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1954-1971. He introduced Panchayati Raj in Rajasthan and worked for its industrialisation also. |
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