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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 |
| 5/5/1972 | Loknathan P. S., great economist, passed away. |
| 1/5/1988 | India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind. |
| 12/27/1998 | Churches and missionary schools come under attack and many were injured in a fresh outbreak of communal violence in Surat and Dangs district of Gujarat even as the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad announce the stepping up of their stir against the alleged conversion of Hindus. |
| 9/23/1862 | Sriniwas Shastri, great patriot and veteran politician, was born. |
| 1/3/1952 | India adopted birth control program with aid of U.N. World Health Organization. |
| 5/5/1998 | Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case. |
| 10/15/1676 | King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay. |
| 12/17/1996 | Virendrakumar Jain, famous writer, died in Mumbai. |
| 4/2/1987 | Indian Standards Institution becomes Bureau of Indian Standards. |
| 1/21/1882 | Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born. |
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