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Historical Event on 10/17/1979

Supreme Court stays the execution of all death sentences.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/30/1993Congress (I) MLA in Andhra Pradesh P. Balaraju and eight officials kidnapped by the outlawed People's War Group in Visakhapatnam district.
2/5/1981Kuda Bux, great Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), passed away at 75.
10/13/1967Vasant Prabhu, famous music director, died.
3/1/1908Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India.
4/2/1970Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
12/3/1971Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies.
9/12/1686Aurangzeb ended Adilshah's kingdom. The garrison lost heart and surrendered Sikandar who was sent to the state prison at Daulatabad. Bijapur was invested and the city opened its gates to the Mughals. Bijapur as an independent kingdom ceased to exist.
2/1/1931Gandhi chiefs order campaign of civil disobedience to continue.
2/6/1949India to nationalize the estate of Nizam, the world's richest man, from Hyderabad.
11/1/1949Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India.