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Historical Event on 12/17/1974

Ustad Gulam Sabir, famous Sarangi player, died at Kanpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1959Premier Chou En-lai insists Tibetan Dalai Lama was abducted to India.
8/5/1991Leila Seth was sworn the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court. She is a judge of Delhi High Court.
11/20/1981Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis.
2/20/1993Government decides to form an Autonomous Council for the tribals within Assam to solve Bodo issue.
4/29/1947Abolition of ""untouchability"".
6/18/1996CBI arrests Sanjeeva Rao, relative of Narasimha Rao, and Prakash Yadav, son of former Union Minister, in the urea scam.
2/16/1994Nivrittibuwa Sarnaik, veteran singer of 'Jaipur Gharana', passed away.
3/27/1996President and Governors of respective states issue notifications for elections to the 11th Lok Sabha and 6 State Assemblies.
6/30/1999The first ever direct bus service between India and Bangladesh gets delayed due to heavy rain.
2/13/1719Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.