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Historical Event on 4/17/1946

Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, greatest social reformer, freedom fighter, educationist, politician, master, scholar of Sanskrit and President of India, passed away.

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7/28/1924Many deaths were reported and several villages were destroyed due to floods in the south.
5/19/2000A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency.
1/1/1944Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, died.
7/16/1996Narasimha Rao moves Delhi High Court seeking quashing of the summons issued against him by Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case.
12/22/1975Vasant Krishna Desai, famous music director, died.
11/15/1997INS Delhi' commissioned.
11/11/1979President N. Sanjiva Reddy declares the opening of the first International Trade Fair of India.
9/1/1915Rajindersingh Bedi, Urdu story writer and Hindi film story writer, was born.
5/21/1935Quetta earthquake takes a heavy toll of life.
3/10/1995ONGC's oil rig that blew out ( January 8 ) at Pasalapudi site near Amalapuram (Andhra Pradesh) put out after 62 days.