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Historical Event on 1/17/1985

Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test vs England.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/17/1903Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born.
9/30/1981Pakistan Commando soldiers release 66 hostages in Lahore from five Khalistan hijackers and activists of the Dal Khalsa International.
9/4/1983INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully.
1/3/1921First Indian Parliament meets.
6/4/1947Dharmanand Damodar Kosambi, internationally famous Pandit of Buddhism, passed away.
12/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee questions Pakistan's decision to hand over part of occupied Kashmir to China and says the area belongs to India.
3/2/1990DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
12/25/1771Shah Alam II sat on the Throne of Dehli. Marathas captured Delhi and induced Shah Alam to return to Delhi after an absence of 18 years from the captial.
11/9/1960Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died.