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Historical Event on 9/17/1956

Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
11/16/1988India gives full recognition to the state of Palestine.
8/15/1997K.Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open Chess tournament.
2/14/1914Vinaya Kumar Parashar, journalist and social worker, was born at Hemgir, M.P.
7/2/1993Delhi High Court stays the Lok Sabha Speaker's order disqualifying four Janata Dal MPs under the anti-defection law.
9/20/1999Shobha Subrahmanyam, managing director of the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group of publications, was elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society for 1999-2000.
7/4/1995Rajan Pillai, business tycoon and biscuit king of India, who was convicted by a Singapore court for multi-million dollar fraud, was arrested in New Delhi.
4/18/1992Russia suspends transfer of rocket technology to India.
2/12/1990The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved.
11/30/2000CBI files fresh cases against JMM MPs Shibu Soren, Simon Marandi and Suraj Mandal on charges of possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.