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Historical Event on 12/17/1914
Syed Mushtaq Ali Takub Khan, cricketer, prolific Indian batsman of 30's & 40's, was born in Indore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/2/1769 | Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born. |
| 4/15/1919 | British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab. |
| 1/20/2000 | J&K accepts the report of the State Autonomy committee tabled in the Assembly last year. |
| 4/10/1919 | Miss Mercia Sherwood, an English teacher, was assaulted by a mob in Amritsar. Brig. General. R.E.H. Dyer had given instructions to beat her. |
| 11/8/1960 | Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan. |
| 6/5/1989 | Missile `Trishul' tested successfully. |
| 10/6/1913 | V. R. Kant, famous poet, was born. |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
| 5/9/1874 | First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai. |
| 4/28/1992 | Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away. |
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