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Historical Event on 8/17/1985
Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/4/1973 | India's then biggest commercial ship merchant fleet 88,000 DWT super tanker ""Jawaharlal Nehru"" commenced its services for the Nation. |
| 3/1/1992 | Anant Gundopant Tendulkar, great journalist, passed away. |
| 2/20/1846 | Duleep Singh was recognised as the ruler. British captured Lahore. |
| 3/7/1996 | Union Cabinet clears decks for extending benefits of reservation to Dalit Christians. |
| 12/14/1969 | Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta. |
| 7/6/1881 | Saint Gulabrao Maharaj was born in Vidarbha. |
| 4/4/1994 | Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns. |
| 3/21/1916 | Ustad Bismilla Khan, clarionett Master, was born at Dumraon in Bihar. |
| 12/5/1950 | Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India. |
| 11/20/1998 | V. K. Sharma, chairman and managing director of JVG Group of Companies, who allegedly swindled Rs. 600 crores from investors, is arrested in Mumbai. |
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