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Historical Event on 03/17/1527
Rana Sangram Singh, King of Mewad, fought Babur near Kanwa at Agra and lost the battle and died thereafter. He had vowed not to enter Chittogarh without a victory.
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| 11/20/1981 | Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis. |
| 2/25/1970 | Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, passed away. |
| 8/9/1997 | Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress plenary session at Calcutta. |
| 7/29/1979 | Choudhary Charan Singh was sworn in as the fifth Prime Minister of India heading the Janata (S)-Congress coalition. He held this office till January 14, 1980. Jagjivan Ram became the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. |
| 5/5/1932 | Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away. |
| 3/8/1957 | Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, prominent leader in Maharashtra and former Chief Minister of Mumbai province, passed away. |
| 6/28/1857 | Nana Sahib proclaimed himself as the Peshwa and called for the total extermination of the British power of India at Bithoor. |
| 6/28/1857 | Saint Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest, Spanish missionary teaching in India and Japan, was born in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre. |
| 11/18/1999 | Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including its Chief Commander, are killed in a fierce encounter with Special Operations Group (SOG) in Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 8/26/1984 | An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers. |
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