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Historical Event on 12/17/1998

P. M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) was unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/29/1916Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan.
1/5/1890Ganendra Mohan Tagore died.
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.
4/7/1929England's Imperial Airways had extended its flight to London-Karachi instead of London-Kahira. It was the first commercial air service in undivided India.
6/18/1956New Hindu Succession Act was passed.
7/1/1902K. S. Ranjit Singh ""Ranji"" scored 230 runs as the captain and Newham (153). They added 344 runs for 7th wkt at Sussex vs Essex.
3/16/1998Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.
1/15/1919Ahmed Mohammad Mamsa, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1963-73, was born at Mumbai.
5/7/1861Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta.
8/15/1998Golden jubilee celebrations of the Indian Independence ends.