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Historical Event on 6/17/1976
Montreal Olympics opens.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/17/1976 | Mudliyar A. Ramaswami, Padmabhushan awardee, politician and industrialist, passed away. |
| 10/21/1950 | China invades Tibet. |
| 3/21/1993 | The 68 km Mangalore-Udupi stretch of the west coast Konkan rail line opened by the PM. |
| 6/5/1995 | A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins. |
| 1/21/1952 | Indian National Congress party wins the 1st General Election of India under the ledearship of Jawaharlal Nehru. |
| 7/20/1957 | India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar. |
| 5/3/1969 | Dr. Zakir Hussain(1897-1969), third President of India and the first Muslim President who occupied this office on 13 May, 1967, passed away. He is also remembered as an educationist. |
| 6/21/1814 | Gilbert Aliat Minto, Governor General of East Indian Company, died. |
| 7/18/1993 | Girilal Jain, 71, The Times of India editor, died. |
| 9/17/1799 | Parshuram Bhau Patwardhan, an able leader and diplomat of Madhavrao Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
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