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Historical Event on 6/17/1976
Montreal Olympics opens.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/10/1908 | Gandhiji adopts word, ""Satyagraha"" in place of ""Passive Resistance"". Sentenced to two months' imprisonment for failure to leave Transvaal. |
| 10/11/1991 | Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinated. |
| 9/10/1912 | B. D. Jatti, former Vice President of India, was born. |
| 5/15/1989 | NAL's 0.6 m transonic wind tunnel is commissioned. Total project cost is about Rs 20 million. |
| 1/12/1918 | C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous film music director, was born. |
| 6/4/1955 | Ministry of Iron & Steel inaugurated. |
| 10/12/1995 | Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI. |
| 1/1/1999 | George Fernandes, Defence Minister, said the sacked Naval Chief, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, had been displaying ""disturbing tendencies"" for over a year and even threatened his successor, Admiral Sushil Kumar, with court martial. |
| 6/4/1989 | Melville de Mellow, Eminent broadcaster, died. |
| 7/17/1974 | J.P. Narain leads an agitation for dissolution of the Bihar Assembly. |
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