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Historical Event on 12/17/1933
Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/17/1929 | La Fontaine, Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM and AVSM, VM, was born in Madras. |
| 2/13/1856 | East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom. |
| 10/29/1990 | Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, died. |
| 9/25/1946 | Bishan Singh Bedi, a former Indian cricketer was born. |
| 8/19/1994 | Rupee made fully convertible on current account. |
| 5/16/1926 | Manik Varma, famous singer, was born. |
| 2/3/1992 | Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first). |
| 9/18/1972 | India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971. |
| 5/25/1611 | Emperor Jahangir married Meherunnisa, widow of Sher Afghan. She recieved the title Noor Jahan. |
| 10/18/1712 | Jeremias Van Riemsdijk, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1775-77), was born. |
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