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Historical Event on 4/17/1990
Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar, famous Director of Raja Kelkar Museum, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/18/1727 | Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India. |
| 7/21/1930 | Anand Bakshi, famous lyrisist, was born. |
| 3/16/1928 | C.V. Raman announced his discovery of ''new radiation'' to an assembly of scientists at Bangalore. |
| 1/28/1996 | Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82. |
| 6/17/1674 | Jijabai, mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died. |
| 4/24/1858 | Kunwar Singh, revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, passed away. He fought his last battle near Jagdishpur, Bihar on April 23, 1858 and defeated the Britishers but was deeply wounded. He also organised the national rebels. |
| 11/3/1605 | Salim renamed himself as Jahangir and became the king of Agra. |
| 12/23/1845 | Rasbhihari Ghosh, famous patriot and law expert, was born. |
| 10/27/1982 | Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died. |
| 2/20/1999 | Mr. Vajpayee travels to Lahore on the inaugural run of the bus between New Delhi and Lahore. |
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