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Historical Event on 7/17/1979
Jagjivan Ram elected Janata parliamentary party leader. Charan Singh is PM heading Janatha (S)-Congress coalition and Jagjivan Ram is leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/16/1959 | Suhridkumar Roy, famous geologist, died. |
| 2/16/1932 | Sibnath Banerjee, trade union movement leader, passed away. He founded several organisation like Congress Socialist Party, A.I.T.U.C. and Hind Mazdoor Sabha, etc. |
| 7/16/1969 | Morarji Desai resigns from cabinet. |
| 6/30/1855 | Santhals of Rajmahal Hills, Santhal-Paragana, Bihar started their agitation against ill treatment by Britishers, revenue officers, police, landlords and moneylenders under the leadership on Sindhu and Kanhu at Bhoranadhighi, Bengali. |
| 10/20/1998 | Security forces unearth 770 kg of RDX and plastic explosives in the Tangmay area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 11/3/1995 | Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim. |
| 7/7/1962 | 94 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay. |
| 3/13/1991 | President R. Venkataraman dissolves the Lok Sabha. |
| 3/31/1843 | Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first musical playwright of Marathi, was born. |
| 1/30/1903 | Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta. |
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