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Historical Event on 3/17/1987

Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1966Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
1/18/1932Shyam Nandan Kishore, great educationist, was born at Muzaffarpur.
3/27/1989T. N. Seshan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 23-12-1989.
3/19/1939Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian bat 112 on debut v England 1959), was born in Hyderabad.
12/23/1976Indira Gandhi attacks the pro-Moscow Communist party for enticing her son Sanjay, but she denies grooming him as her successor.
1/18/1997Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme Phase II begins.
9/17/1929La Fontaine, Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM and AVSM, VM, was born in Madras.
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
1/30/1996Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.
10/10/1996UP polls throw up a hung assembly.