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Historical Event on 7/17/2000
55 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/23/1894 | Edward VIII, king of Great Brit/N-Ireland and emperor of India (1936), was born. |
| 3/15/1920 | Ranganandhan Francis, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born. |
| 9/3/1767 | Colonel Smith was defeated in the battle of Changama that took place between the combined forces of Nizam and Hyder Ali and the British army. This was the first war of Mysore. The British concluded a humiliating peace with Hyder Ali of Mysore. |
| 12/15/1980 | Hema Chengkalath, female Soccer(Football) player, was born in Calgary, Canada. |
| 10/10/1991 | Anantrao Laxmanrao Kulmarni, editor of monthly magzine 'Sajjangad' and weekly 'Samarth', died. |
| 12/3/1971 | Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies. |
| 7/27/1998 | Gian Singh, convicted for the murder of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, is sentenced to death. |
| 8/3/1930 | Vyanktesh Bapuji Ketkar, famous astrologist and researcher, died. |
| 3/10/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee agrees to form a government with 252 members including the BJP and it's allies. |
| 1/16/1988 | L. K. Jha, famous economist and member of Rajya Sabha, died. |
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