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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
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Nizam Shah became the Sultan of Dehli. |
| 7/17/1893 |
Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months. |
| 7/17/1903 |
Joseph, versatile author in Malyalam language and critic Butshshor, was born. |
| 7/17/1930 |
Lord Irwin,British Viceroy, allows Indian moderates to visit Gandhi in prison. |
| 7/17/1935 |
Dr. Ram Babu Gupta, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1986-89, was born at Delhi. |
| 7/17/1937 |
Delhi-Calcutta Express Train derailed near Patna killing 95. |
| 7/17/1947 |
Ramdas Coastal Steamer sank off Bombay claiming 550 lives. |
| 7/17/1948 |
Govt. announced that all discriminations against women in matter of employment will be done away with and in future, women will be eligible for any public service including administrative sevice and police service. |
| 7/17/1974 |
J.P. Narain leads an agitation for dissolution of the Bihar Assembly. |
| 7/17/1976 |
Mudliyar A. Ramaswami, Padmabhushan awardee, politician and industrialist, passed away. |
| 7/17/1979 |
Jagjivan Ram elected Janata parliamentary party leader. Charan Singh is PM heading Janatha (S)-Congress coalition and Jagjivan Ram is leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha. |
| 7/17/1987 |
V. P. Singh announces resignation from Congress; R. Venkataraman elected President of India. |
| 7/17/1992 |
Lok Sabha rejects no-trust motion. |
| 7/17/1996 |
All 47 ministers in Madhya Pradesh submit resignations to CM Digvijay Singh. |
| 7/17/1996 |
Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth. |
| 7/17/1997 |
K.R. Narayanan,Vice President, wins in the Presidential election with a record margin to become the next head of state. |
| 7/17/2000 |
55 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/12/1936 | Nehru urges Socialism for India. |
| 11/19/1978 | Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for second time. |
| 9/19/1704 | Guru Govind Singh died. |
| 11/27/1888 | Ganesh Vasudeo Malvankar, great social worker, educationist, writer and first speaker of Lok Sabha, was born in Baroda. |
| 1/25/1988 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran, MGR (Posthumous) (1917-1987). |
| 12/11/1876 | Raobahadur Yeshwantrao Harishchandra Desai, famous architect, was born. |
| 10/15/1932 | First Indian commercial airliner service 'Tata Sons Ltd' started. (Tata Airlines) |
| 3/8/1986 | L.K. Advani elected President of BJP. |
| 12/12/2000 | A special court for CBI cases rejects Hinduja brothers' plea and summons them to appear on January 19, 2001. |
| 2/1/1994 | PM Rao attends the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland. |
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