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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
8/13/1943Chintamanrao Deshmukh was first Indian to be appointed Governor of Reserve Bank.
2/5/1992Ajit Singh elected 'real J.D.' President.
6/2/1992The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam.
6/23/2000Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath gets Amnesty International Global award for human rights journalism..
3/25/1931Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi matyred in Hindu-Muslim riot at Kanpur. He was also the Editor of weekly 'Pratap'.
1/18/2000S. S. Dawra is appointed new Director of the Enforcement Directorate.
4/16/1991President's rule imposed in Haryana.
6/29/1909Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born.
5/17/1927A.N. Radhakrishnan, great educationist, was born.
6/20/1995B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1).