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Historical Event on 12/17/1978

Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/16/1906Shankar Damodar Chitale, famous author and teacher, was born in Secundarabad.
10/11/1876Saint Gadgebaba, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
1/26/1993Sub Lt. Rubi Singh of the Navy becomes the first woman in India to lead an armed force contingent in the Republic Day parade at New Delhi; British PM John Major attends as the first ever British head of Government as Chief Guest.
6/25/1975President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day.
12/25/1995First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras.
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
8/19/1994Rupee made fully convertible on current account.
9/19/1704Guru Govind Singh died.
4/18/1904Ramnath Goenka, president and founder of Indian Express Group, was born.
9/1/1934Suniti Kumar Ghosh, cricket test umpire for two tests from 1988-89, was born in Bengal.