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Historical Event on 6/17/1756

Nawab Sira-ud-Daulah attacked on Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1997Over 23,000 blowdowns completed in 1.2 m tunnel.
5/29/1933Kishorilal Goswami, famous Hindi novelist, passed away.
10/10/197761 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini.
9/21/1996Apang (Legislative Party leader of Arunachal Congress) sworn in as Arunachal Pradesh chief minister again.
9/30/1981Pakistan Commando soldiers release 66 hostages in Lahore from five Khalistan hijackers and activists of the Dal Khalsa International.
3/14/1992NTR expels Upendra and six others from Telegu Desam Party.
8/15/1997Freedom fighter's pension to be doubled from the existing Rs. 1,500.
12/5/1998Jaswant Singh and Pramod Mahajan take over as the new Foreign Minister and Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Jagmohan takes over as Minister for Communications.
10/12/1952Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs New Zealand.
10/5/1949A. K. Pillai, great social reformer and politician, died.