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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 |
| 2/24/1899 | Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born. |
| 6/28/1921 | Sahityaratna P. V. Narsingh Rao, former Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 6/4/1947 | Dharmanand Damodar Kosambi, internationally famous Pandit of Buddhism, passed away. |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
| 4/7/1920 | Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India. |
| 9/16/1995 | Prime Minister inducts 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevates three deputy ministers to the rank of Ministers of State. |
| 7/6/1787 | Robert founded Indian Botanic Garden near Calcutta by Kyd on 273 acres of land. |
| 12/9/1993 | Virbhadra Singh sworn in as Congress CM of Himachal Pradesh. |
| 11/24/1992 | It was decided that Lok Sabha session would start with the national song ""Vande Mataram"" and end with National Anthem ""Jana Gana |
| 6/19/1999 | The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart. |
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