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Historical Event on 12/17/1645

Noorjahan Begum passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1921Des Raj Kalia, great librarian, was born at Fazilka, Punjab.
10/6/1997Abhijit Kunte wins Asian Junior Chess title.
11/25/1975Chandulal Shah, film maker, passed away.
7/29/1980India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics.
8/19/1903Gangadhar Devram Khanolkar, biographer and critic, was born.
9/24/1856Henry, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and Governor General of India, passed away.
8/16/2000Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, goes into a coma after multiple organ failure.
6/23/1953Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician, national leader and founder of JanSangh Party, died at Srinagar while in detention.
8/4/1997Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.
1/6/1980In the general election (7th) of India, Indira Gandhi led Indian National Congress Party gains two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha legislative elections.