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Historical Event on 3/17/1967
4th Parliament (Lok Sabha) was formed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/31/1992 | Sitar maestro Pt. Ravishankar wins the Magsaysay Award. |
| 5/25/1979 | Commercial Unity Day started. |
| 1/8/1965 | Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History. |
| 11/16/1998 | Kiran More, former Indian stumper, calls it a day from first class cricket at Baroda. |
| 6/15/1960 | Bardwan University was established in West Bengal. |
| 6/28/1975 | As a response to anti-government demonstrations, India imposes the toughest press censorship since independence. |
| 11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
| 9/29/1906 | Chhajju Ram, social worker and teacher, was born at Manawar, Chhamb. |
| 1/21/1956 | Strikes and demonstrations held in Bihar and Orissa in protest of the government's intention to revise state boundaries. |
| 10/5/1990 | Dr. Rajkumar Varma, famous Hindi journalist and playwright, died. |
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