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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.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/16/1951Nehru opponents founded People's party at New Delhi.
8/9/1942Subhash Chandra Bose (Netaji) forms the Indian National Army in Malaya with the help of the Japanese. He inaugurates the Government of Free India at Singapore.
1/23/1919Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi drama writer, comedy writer and poet, passed away.
5/3/1969Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980) became the acting President of India.
12/11/1976Aliyawar Jung, former Governor of Maharashtra, died.
5/2/1974700 union leaders arrested in a move to avert a rail strike in New Delhi.
10/24/1934Mahatma Gandhi quits Indian Indian National Congress in struggle over tactics.
1/24/1997Justice Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi and Justice Sukhdev Singh Kang appointed Governors of Tamil Nadu and Kerala respectively.
5/10/1992Dr. D.S.Tyagi, Chairman of the Agricultural Costs and Prices Commission, was shot dead by suspected Sikh terrorists in Delhi.
4/21/199018 more ministers added in the National Front Ministry.