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Historical Event on 12/17/1996

Virendrakumar Jain, famous writer, died in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/8/1998Indian Airlines operates two international flights with all women crew.
6/17/1976Montreal Olympics opens.
1/16/2000Punjab men, Railway women win the Senior National Volleyball championship in Salem.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
5/7/1950Punjab Mail train crashed near Jasidh killing 81 persons.
7/9/1993Passport fees raised from Rs. 60 to Rs.300.
3/31/1980Nirmal Mukherjee, the last Indian Civil Service Officer, retired from service as Cabinet Secretary.
4/26/1990V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh.
7/24/1985Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sikh leader Sant Harchand Singh Longowal of Akali Dal signed a peace contract known as 'Punjab Accord' thus ending the four-year agitation in Punjab.
10/28/1867Swami Vivekanand Sister Nivedita, great freedom fighter, revolutionary and politician, was born at Dunganon in Ireland.