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Historical Event on 9/17/1948

The Nizam of Hyderabad, in a broadcast, announced ceasefire to his troops and accession into Indian Union, which was settled earlier to the announcement.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/29/2000Tata Ramachandra Prasad to be the next Cabinet Secretary.
11/22/1968Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu.
7/12/1674Chhatrapati Shivaji signed a friendship treaty with East India Company.
5/22/1991Elections scheduled to be held on 23, 26 deferred to 12, 15 of June.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
7/5/1999Two buses, which were inaugurated from Dhaka, arrive in Calcutta.
2/24/1994Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%.
9/15/1861Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family.
12/16/1999The second phase of national AIDS programme is launched.
11/9/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him.