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Historical Event on 4/17/1926
Chandrashekhar, eighth Prime Minister of India, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/18/1990 | President R Venkataraman presented the colours to the Officers Training Academy in recognition of their services to the Nation. |
8/11/2000 | Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away. |
5/17/1974 | Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
6/23/1958 | Tamil leaders in Madras call on Nehru to lobby for better treatment of Ceylon's Tamil minority. |
10/10/1957 | Jagdeep', a children's film, won the first prize at the Ninth International Exhibition of Films for Children at Venice. |
9/1/1798 | England signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India. |
4/11/1937 | Ramnath Krishnan, well known Indian Tennis player, was born. |
1/21/1963 | Acharaya Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi writer, poet and novelist, died. He was editor of Hindi journals like ""Marwari Sudhar"", ""Samanwaya"", ""Adarsh"" etc. He wrote 400 short stories and 67 biographies. His novel ""Dehati Dunia"" is acclaimed as first regional novel in Hindi. |
1/27/1996 | 'Prithvi', surface-to-surface missile, test-fired successfully. |
1/12/1869 | Dr. Bhagavan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur, was born at Varanasi. |
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