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Historical Event on 4/17/1975

Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, India's second president, died at Madras.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/28/1846British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal.
8/26/1927Second Radio Centre was started in Calcutta.
12/3/1971Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
1/12/1934Surya Sen (Master Da), revolutionary leader of the Indian Republican Army, who attacked the armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army, was hanged at Chittgong Jail by the Britishers.
5/11/1985Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.
1/9/1972In 1971, 433 feature films produced in the world with a record and a top position in film production.
11/14/1681East India Company declared Bengal as a seperate presidency.
11/15/199237 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur.
3/24/1981Bombay beat Delhi by an innings and 46 runs to win the Ranji Trophy.
8/5/1981Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J).