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Historical Event on 9/17/1956

Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/15/1998Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati were ranked No. 2 when they won Dubai Open.
3/3/1939Motganhalli Laxmanarsu Jaisi alais Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties), was born in Secundrabad.
10/4/1997J & K Assembly passed the Ladakh Hill Council Bill.
11/30/2000Dr. Anil Kakodkar takes charge as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy.
11/30/2000Vasco De Gama departed with his fleet from Lisbon Harbour for a trip to India .
6/16/1859Anandram Dhekial Fukun, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, passed away.
10/2/1911Ambat Menon, great educationist, was born at Chittore, Kerala .
10/26/1930Gulal Bai Parekar, a14-year-old girl led a 13-girls team to hoist the national flag at Esplanade Park. A police sargeant tried to snach the flag and then kidnapped her.
6/23/1920Kesri Jagannathrao Joshi, senior leader of Janata Party in Karnataka, was born.
8/3/1898Udayshankar Bhatt, modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist, was born.