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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
12/17/1929Bhagat Singh and Rajguru killed Sanders, Asst. Suprintendent of Police.
8/9/1966Heroes of the 1942 movement were honoured at a rally in Red Fort.
4/1/1969India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore.
3/30/1997Congress Party withdraws support to the 10-month old H. D. Deve Gowda Government at the centre, and stakes its claim to form an alternative government.
4/10/1930Police raid the headquarters of the Indian National Congress, Bombay.
1/31/1998D. R. Karthikeyan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/03/98).
5/23/1942Lt Gen Joseph Stilwell and his men arrive at Dimapur, having retreated 150 miles (240 km) through the Burmese jungle. `We took a hell of a beating,' he said.
1/12/1948Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji.
5/29/1915Sita Ram Surajmal Jajoo, social reformer and politician, was born at Neemuch Cantt, M.P.
7/12/1980Congress (I) gets absolute majority in Rajya Sabha.