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Events for April 17

17-April-1479	Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born.
17-April-1675	Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj attacked the Fonda fort and won Karwar.
17-April-1799	Srirangapatnam was surrounded by British Army in the fourth and last Mysore war which began in 1798. Tipu Sultan' was killed in the battle on 4th May. The East India Company announced the Seringapatanam Medal (1799).
17-April-1904	Naoomal Jeoomal Makhija, cricketer, pioneer Indian Test opening batsman, Right Arm Bowler and played 3 matches, was born at Karachi.
17-April-1917	V.Sp. Manickam, famous Hndi writer, was born at Melasivapuri (Pudukkottai).
17-April-1923	Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India.
17-April-1926	Chandrashekhar, eighth Prime Minister of India, was born.
17-April-1941	Office of Price Administration was formed which handled the rationing of essential commodities.
17-April-1945	Gandhiji, in a statement regarding the ensuing San Francisco Conference, says that 'peace is impossible without equality and freedom of India'. Also demands a just peace for Germany and Japan.
17-April-1946	Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, greatest social reformer, freedom fighter, educationist, politician, master, scholar of Sanskrit and President of India, passed away.
17-April-1946	Bellary Raghava, famous actor, social worker, lawyer and dramatist, passed away.
17-April-1952	First Lok Sabha was formed. Ananthasaynam Ayyangar, was elected as the first Deputy speaker of Lok Sabha (1952).
17-April-1975	Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, India's second president, died at Madras.
17-April-1977	Swatantra Party was merged in Janata Party.
17-April-1983	Rohini (RS-D2), placed in orbit, was used for conducting some remote sensing technology studies using a landmark sensor payload. Launched by the second developmental launch of SLV-3.
17-April-1990	Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people.
17-April-1990	Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar, famous Director of Raja Kelkar Museum, passed away.
17-April-1996	Sheila Kaul, H.P. Governor, indicted in house allotment scandal, should be removed from her post, says Supreme Court.
17-April-1996	Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.
17-April-1997	Biju Patnaik, 81, Janata Dal leader and important personality in Orissa politics, died.
17-April-1998	BJP Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta retains his Lok Sabha seat in the Udhampur-Doda-Kathna constituency defeating National Conference's Rajinder Kumar Chib by over 50,000 votes.
17-April-1999	The Vajpayee Government resigns after it loses the confidence vote in the Lok Sabha by one vote - 269 to 270.