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Historical Event on 7/17/1996

Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/23/1984An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid.
10/21/1934Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary.
10/3/1992Geet Sethi beats holder Mike Russel of Britain (2529-718) to become the first Indian to win the World Professional Billiards championship in Bombay.
4/27/1854First telegram was sent between Mumbai and Pune.
7/3/1979Construction of the main second Howrah Bridge (Vidyasagar Setu) started.
2/25/1886Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave 'Narmad', social reformer and famous Gujrati litterateur, passed away.
11/17/1857Sir Colin Campbell, British Army Officer, managed to supress Indian Mutiny sepoys at Lucknow.
5/17/1857Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India.
5/13/1918Balasarswati, famous dancer of Bharat Natyam, was born.
7/29/1993Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha.



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