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Historical Event on 8/17/1947

The first British troop leaves for England after Indian independence.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/20/1995India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control.
2/13/1713Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers.
5/21/1835Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born.
6/1/1944M. V. Dhurandhar, famous master painter of Maharashtra, passed away.
1/11/1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
10/15/1899Menka (Lady Lila Sokhi), famous Indian dancer, was born.
9/27/199573 people died in a coal mine accident in Gaslitand in Dhanbad district, Bihar, when flood water leaked into the mine.
3/25/1987Marxist-led alliance gets majority in Kerala and West Bengal elections .
4/27/1606Jahangir arrested Khusroo.
3/15/1997Lok Sabha passes Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 1997.