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Historical Event on 6/17/1973

Leander Vece Paes, tennis player who singles bronze at Atlanta Olympics (1996), was born. He was also a winner of French Open in 1999, Gold Flake Open, Newport 1998, Wimbledon 1999 (doubles and mixed doubles).

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/13/1997Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.
6/4/1997Special Judge Ajit Bharihoke discharges former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao and former Union Minister Prof. K. K. Tewary in St. Kitts forgery case for lack of sufficient evidence.
2/6/1953Congress, PSP, CP and Jansangh recognised as All India parties by the Election Commission.
2/6/1953Akbar won the war near Ahmedabad and captured Gujrat.
10/16/1922M.V. Desai, social reformer and journalist, was born.
10/31/1997Balmiki Prasad Singh takes over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds K. Padmanabhaiah.
10/14/1955Colombo Plan conference held at New Delhi pleas for technological aid to Asia .
11/5/1977Indira Gandhi arrested and released unconditionally. The External Affairs Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee addresses the United Nations General Assembly in Hindi.
3/5/1868Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar alias Save Dada, who filmed the felicitation function of Wrangler R. P. Paranjapye, was born. This film was titled as ""The Fresh Indian Regular of Cambridge University."" He was the First Short Documentary Film Maker of India.
10/26/1999India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).