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Historical Event on 6/17/1961
The HF-24 Marut supersonic fighter, designed by German engineer Kurt Tank, makes its maiden flight.
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| 12/24/1972 | Daily newspaper ""Janshakti"" published it's first edition at Jalgaon. |
| 11/28/1945 | Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs India at Calcutta. |
| 5/10/1909 | Bellari Shammanna Keshvan, internationally famous librarian, was born. |
| 9/16/1996 | First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto. |
| 4/28/1974 | Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta, famous economist, politician and journalist, passed away. |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
| 10/15/1946 | Muslim League decides to participate in the Interim Government. |
| 4/30/1908 | Khudiram Bose along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to throw a bomb at a carriage supposed to be carrying the tyrannical magistrate Kingsford. Unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death. |
| 5/1/1922 | Madhu Limaye, great politician, freedom fighter, writer and national leader, was born at Pune, Maharashtra. |
| 11/18/1937 | Rajinder Pal, cricketer (pace bowler in one Test India v Eng, 0-22), was born in Delhi. |
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