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Historical Event on 10/17/1994
Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/20/1972 | Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become states of Indian union. Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram become Union Territories. Assam's North East Frontier Agency (Nepha) was renamed as Arunachal Pradesh territory. |
| 7/8/1954 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated world's longest Bhakra-Nangal Dam canal at Punjab. |
| 4/8/1923 | Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week. |
| 2/6/1932 | Veena Das, revolutionary freedom fighter, shot Stenly Jackson, Governor of Calcutta at the convocation ceremony of B.A. degree, but Jackson was afraid and bend down, thus the aim was missed. |
| 11/2/1971 | Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives. |
| 4/24/1959 | Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie. |
| 9/6/1999 | Vyjayanthimala Bali, former Congress (I) MP, joins the BJP. |
| 2/18/1911 | Under the auspices of the British Army, French pilot Henry Pequet makes the first official airmail flight from Allahabad to Naini Junction. |
| 2/6/1949 | India to nationalize the estate of Nizam, the world's richest man, from Hyderabad. |
| 8/9/1963 | India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow. |
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