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Historical Event on 6/17/2000

Danial Latifi (83), well known jurist and senior Supreme Court advocate, died of cancer in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/24/1988Mizoram became the first Lok Sabha member.
12/29/1927Hakim Ajmal Khan, freedom fighter, litterateur and a true patriot, died.
6/17/1976Montreal Olympics opens.
4/16/1980Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final.
5/29/1953Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay.
8/12/1979Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people.
2/8/1967Indira Gandhi was hit in face by a stone while addressing crowd.
3/17/1999GM Dibyendu Barua and IWM S. Vijayalakshmi (both India) won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Asian Zonal chess championship in Mumbai.
5/5/1989Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away.
4/29/1998The Reserve Bank reduces the bank rate by one point from 10 per cent in its monetary and credit policy for the first half of 1998- 99.