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Historical Event on 6/17/1965
Motilal, famous actor, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/10/1986 | Pope John Paul II ends visit to India. |
| 5/19/1913 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India, was born. |
| 7/20/1916 | Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai. |
| 2/9/1985 | Editor of 'Sakal', a Marathi daily newspaper, passed away. |
| 4/1/1933 | Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron. |
| 9/5/1612 | East India Company's Navy eastablished. |
| 1/1/1972 | Indian states abolished the previous rulers of Privy purses and privileges. |
| 7/20/1957 | India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar. |
| 5/18/1999 | R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai. |
| 5/18/1999 | Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India. |
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