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Historical Event on 12/17/1998
P. M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) was unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/11/1966 | Gulzarilal Nanda was appointed as the acting Prime Minister of India. He held this position till January 24, 1966. |
| 9/18/1993 | Asit Sen, famous comedy actor and character artist, died. |
| 11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
| 10/6/1963 | Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter and grand old man of Punjab, died. |
| 5/6/1971 | D. Sen became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 29/03/77). |
| 9/14/1933 | Gandhi declares one-year moratorium on civil disobedience in India. |
| 8/5/1986 | Vellupillai Prabakaran, Tamil rebel leader, died. The vision of secession for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority may have come to an end. But so, too, might the violence that the nation had endured. Today, Tamil rebel leader Vellupillai Prabakaran accepted the peace accord signed last week by India and Sri Lanka. Prabakaran surrendered to Indian forces and his men turned over their weapons. The pact is seen as a compromise by the co-signers. But to the dejected Tamil leader, who has fought since childhood for a Tamil victory, it was a stinging defeat. The treaty creates an autonomous multi-religious zone in the eastern and northern provinces. The rebels dreamed and passed away for a separate state of their own. |
| 8/2/1958 | Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 13 Tests between 1987-89), was born in Hydrabad. |
| 2/14/1999 | Fifth National Games inaugurated at Imphal. |
| 1/23/1920 | Air transportation began in India by two Royal Air Force planes between Karachi and Bombay, and Air Mail service started. |
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