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Historical Event on 12/17/1715

Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army.

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10/19/1920Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born.
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11/8/1988Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.
6/28/1986Union Government sanctions maternity leave for unmarried women employees too.
10/9/2000The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it.
7/12/1960Ranchi University was established.
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8/9/1971Vinodnand Jha, former Chief Minister of Bihar, died.
4/12/1997Maharashtra assembly adopts bill banning interviews for admitting students to pre-primary schools.
10/16/1959National Council of Women's Education was inaugurated in New Delhi.