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Events for December 17

17-December-1645	Noorjahan Begum passed away.
17-December-1715	Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army.
17-December-1740	Chimaji Appa, Peshwa warrior, died.
17-December-1830	Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, died.
17-December-1877	Feroz Shah died at Makka, Saudi.
17-December-1905	Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
17-December-1910	Keki Khursedji Tarapore, cricketer (0-72 in his only Test for India), was born in Bombay.
17-December-1914	Syed Mushtaq Ali Takub Khan, cricketer, prolific Indian batsman of 30's & 40's, was born in Indore.
17-December-1929	Bhagat Singh and Rajguru killed Sanders, Asst. Suprintendent of Police.
17-December-1933	Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut.
17-December-1934	Khandesh Gandhi Mir Sukrulla, great patriot and freedom fighter, died.
17-December-1938	Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died.
17-December-1959	Pattabhi Sitaramayya, president of Indian National Congress and politician, died at the age of 78.
17-December-1961	Provocative action against our nationals in the vicinity of Anjadip Island and Portugal's belligerent attitude to the problems of its colonial possessions in this country, resulted in the Government of India's decision to liberate Goa, Daman and Diu. Operations were launched at night.
17-December-1970	Judge Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 21/01/1971.
17-December-1971	Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir and end of Indo-Pak war.
17-December-1972	New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan.
17-December-1974	Ustad Gulam Sabir, famous Sarangi player, died at Kanpur.
17-December-1978	Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died.
17-December-1987	Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims.
17-December-1990	N. Janardhan Reddy sworn in as CM of Andhra Pradesh.
17-December-1991	Narasimhan committee on Monetary Reforms recommends that there should not be any further nationalisation of banks. Loan-melas assailed.
17-December-1996	Virendrakumar Jain, famous writer, died in Mumbai.
17-December-1998	Jyotirmoyee bags her second gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's 800m. Rosakutty finishes second. Bantamweight pugilist Dingko Singh clinches a gold while Indian pair of Sethi-Shandilya strikes top prize in billiards doubles category.
17-December-1998	P. M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) was unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
17-December-1999	Pramod Mahajan, Parliamentary Affairs Minister, announces that Women's Bill will be introduced in the Lok Sabha.
17-December-2000	The 13-day nationwide postal strike called off.