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Historical Event on 8/17/1996
CBI seizes another Rs. 65 lakhs from Sukh Ram's residence.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/17/1910 | Smt. Anutai Wagh, great social worker, passed away. |
| 3/22/1902 | Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph. |
| 7/6/1927 | Vyankatesh Dingambar Madgulkar, great Marathi story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 12/29/1904 | K. V. Puttappa, famous Kannada poet and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born at Hirekodage. |
| 12/29/1904 | Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same. |
| 12/29/1904 | Vallabhacharya, founder of 'Pushthimarg Panth', was born. |
| 4/6/1664 | Harkhishan Singh, Sikh Guru, died. |
| 7/3/1979 | Construction of the main second Howrah Bridge (Vidyasagar Setu) started. |
| 1/4/1909 | Prabhakar Padhye, modern Marathi litterateur, was born. |
| 9/2/1984 | Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar. |
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