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Historical Event on 10/17/1979

Supreme Court stays the execution of all death sentences.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/22/1991Durga Khote, film actress and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 86 years.
7/1/1947Independence of India Bill passed.
10/10/1996UP polls throw up a hung assembly.
3/31/1994Argentina President Carlos Menem visits India.
4/14/1907P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born.
12/7/1992Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shooted and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha.
10/10/1964Ravi Shankar performs at Town Hall in New York.
3/29/1952India enters into a war with Japan.
4/5/1993The Left and Democratic Front earns two third majority at the Tripura Assembly elections.
1/4/1972Pakistan proposed to talk after the war.