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Historical Event on 8/17/1997

Leander-Mahesh duo wins International ATP doubles in Connecticut.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1992Karnataka seeks army help to nab sandal wood smuggler Veerappan.
9/24/1777Sarfoji Bhosle, king of Tanjawar, was born.
10/17/19037th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
11/29/1989Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
3/10/1969Parliament passed the Act that made Central Industrial Security Force as an Armed Force of the union.
6/9/199881 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone.
4/12/1801Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab.
10/31/1919Jaikisan Harivallabhdas, great industrialist, was born.
12/20/1959Jasu Patel takes 9-69 during India vs Australia tour at Kanpur.