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Historical Event on 11/17/1966

India's beauty queen Rita Faria was crowned as 'Miss World' in World Beauty contest held in London. She was a medical student.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/2000Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.
2/3/1928Simon Commission comes to India under Lord Irwin, after which serious rioting started on his arrival.
11/14/1967Saba Karim, Indian ODI wicket-keeper 1997, was born.
9/6/1947Indian government creates a new ministry of relief and rehabilitation of refugees.
4/4/1994Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns.
1/3/1912Shantiprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born.
1/12/1948Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji.
7/22/1956Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.
9/9/1999Mahesh Bhupathi and Ai Sugiyama won the mixed doubles title in the U.S. Open.
2/10/1943Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3.