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Historical Event on 3/17/1959

Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/13/1999Militants attack the residential complex of Border Security Force (BSF) in Madar village near Bandipur and take 12 persons as hostages after killing four.
10/5/1805Lord Charles Cornwallis, Governor General, died of ill health at Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh.
8/15/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as the first British Governor General of Indian Union and occupied this office till June 20, 1948.
1/18/1985Spy ring cracked. Top Government officials, businessmen held.
5/17/1997Two workers belonging to Mamsapuram near Srivilliputtur ''burnt alive'' at neighbouring Edayankulam by its residents who took them hostage.
1/10/1998Geet Sethi retains National billiards title in Calcutta.
3/1/1916Habib Rahman, great Architect, was born at Calcutta.
10/12/1999Sachidanand Sakshi, former BJP MP, joined SP.
11/6/1997Supreme Court acquits former Union Minister for Power and Food Kalpanath Rai held under TADA for alleged harbouring of an accused in ""1992 Bombay J.J. Hospital shootout case'
1/12/2000Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000.