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Historical Event on 4/17/1998
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.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/16/1911 | Pumping Station of Calcutta was commissioned at Tallah. |
8/17/1970 | The first microwave link, which was set up without foreign assistance, was commissioned between Asansol, Dhanbad and Ranchi. |
12/20/1999 | Win Chadha ready to come to India to face trial in the Bofors case. |
1/16/1896 | Jaideva Singh, famous musician and educationist, was born Shohratgarh, U.P. |
4/12/1942 | Nehru pledges 'no surrender' to the Axis despite the rejection of Britain's plans at New Delhi. |
1/2/1994 | Warden's in Arambaug, India lead about a fifty hungry and bruised elephants into a forest for temporary shelter. After a week, the herd strayed from a santuary, stampeding villagers and terrorising peasants. |
1/8/1981 | India all out for 63 runs in one-day international vs Australia. |
9/24/1936 | It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity. |
11/1/2000 | Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Minister for Sports, releases the CBI report on match-fixing in New Delhi. |
1/23/1976 | Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation. |
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