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Historical Event on 10/17/1979

Supreme Court stays the execution of all death sentences.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/26/1976V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.
8/28/1972General Insurance Business was nationalised.
9/11/1995PM Narsimha Rao inaugurated the State Panchayat minister's meet for discussing panchayat election, devolution of administrative and financial power to the local bodies.
4/26/1995SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA).
1/11/1858Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born.
1/11/1858Sheikh Mirza, chieftain of a small state of Ferghana, was born in Turkmenistan.
10/26/194627 die as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued in Calcutta.
5/20/1940Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.
10/28/1998The 1997 B.C. Roy National Award was presented to 18 medical experts.
6/13/1998India rejects G-8 prescriptions saying they are ''coercive and intrusive'' and intend to freeze the nuclear weapon capabilities of New Delhi and Islamabad.