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Historical Event on 2/17/1698
Aurangzeb fell to Jinjee fort, seat of Maratha power, after eight-year siege.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/11/1856 | Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born. |
| 8/10/1942 | Manju Bala Patil was shot on the road at Mumbai by the British Police. |
| 5/19/1980 | T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away. |
| 1/1/1966 | Vimal Roy, film maker and producer, passed away. |
| 12/11/1938 | Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, famous Hindi litterateur and editor, passed away. |
| 4/14/1998 | Kushabhau Thakre is declared elected BJP president. |
| 3/14/1997 | Border Security Force discovers a 34-metre long tunnel in the Ajnala Sub-sector of the Punjab border with Pakistan. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"". |
| 5/8/1998 | Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, gets the Gandhi award for 1998. |
| 5/13/2000 | The Union Government gives its approval for the creation of the three new states of Jharkhand, Uttaranchal and Chhattisgarh to be carved out of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. |
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