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Historical Event on 4/17/1997

Biju Patnaik, 81, Janata Dal leader and important personality in Orissa politics, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/27/1999P.M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
6/4/1992Stock broker Harshad Mehta and his associates arrested.
1/24/1857Calcutta University established.
6/18/1978The Karakoram Highway, linking Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Sinkiang in China, is opened.
6/18/1978Pedro Cabral departs from Pourtugol with 13 ships to India.
8/16/1997Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam.
12/1/1886Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Musran in U.P.
12/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee questions Pakistan's decision to hand over part of occupied Kashmir to China and says the area belongs to India.
1/21/2000The Samata Party National Executive elects Mrs. Jaya Jaitley as its president.
1/21/2000Sikh Guru Har Govindji, the sixth sikh guru, was born. He fashioned a military role for the Sikhs.