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Historical Event on 7/17/1947
Ramdas Coastal Steamer sank off Bombay claiming 550 lives.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/22/1994 | Chabbildas Mehta sworn in as Gujarat CM. |
| 9/9/1947 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great philosopher, linguist, art historian, painter and critic, died at Needham, Boston. |
| 1/6/1942 | Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world. |
| 9/1/1913 | Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, politician, social reformer, lawyer and athelete, was born. |
| 10/4/1857 | Shyamji Krishna Varma, freedom fighter, nationalist and patriot, was born at Mandvi village, Gujarat. |
| 1/21/1996 | Lakshmi Parvati elected president of Telugu Desam NTR faction. |
| 4/20/1971 | India won Cricket Test Rubber' for the first time after defeating West Indies Cricket Team. |
| 5/18/1995 | Sukhomoy Sengupta, 76, Tripura's first CM, passed away. |
| 10/10/1954 | First 'President Award' was awarded to film 'Shyamchi Aai'. |
| 7/28/1921 | Congress decided to boycott the visit of Prince of Wales in India. |
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