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Historical Event on 6/17/1756
Nawab Sira-ud-Daulah attacked on Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21.
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| 11/13/1917 | Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born. |
| 7/24/1783 | Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, was born at Carcas. |
| 3/8/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started civil disobedience movement continues in India. |
| 5/4/1959 | Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China. |
| 12/17/1991 | Narasimhan committee on Monetary Reforms recommends that there should not be any further nationalisation of banks. Loan-melas assailed. |
| 8/23/1994 | Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan possessed a nuclear bomb and warned that an attack by India could start a nuclear war in Pakistan. |
| 4/1/1962 | Maharashtra State Finance Corporation started its operations. |
| 9/23/1967 | P. S. Vaidya, great Indian ODI pace bowler (1995-96), was born. |
| 6/10/1957 | Bhai Vir Singh, great Punjabi poet, novelist, social reformer, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, died. |
| 8/27/2000 | Mika Hakkinen wins the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix in SPA-Francorchamps at Belgium. |
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