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Historical Event on 6/17/1756

Nawab Sira-ud-Daulah attacked on Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/14/1999At least 51 persons are killed and several injured in a stampede at a hilltop at Pampa on the foothills of Sabarimala in Kerala.
7/2/1929Amritlal Basu, famous Bengali playwright, died.
6/20/1911Dattatray Purushottam Karmarkar, veteran freedom fighter and former cabinet minister, died.
1/1/1972Indian states abolished the previous rulers of Privy purses and privileges.
1/14/1959Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, emerges as leading choice for president in New Delhi.
5/28/1970All India Trade Union Congress was divided.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
11/9/1877Muhammad Iqbal, Urdu poet, was born in Sialkot (now in Pakistan).
1/8/2000Abhin Shyam Gupta and B.R. Meenakshi win the NSCI Grand Prix all India badminton tournament in Mumbai.
6/14/1961Sir Karyamanikkam Shrinivas Krishnan died.