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Historical Event on 7/17/1947

Ramdas Coastal Steamer sank off Bombay claiming 550 lives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/15/1950Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested to the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his 'Bhudan Andolan'.
4/15/1950Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India.
8/16/1933Mahatma Gandhi goes on fast for being denied to continue the anti-untouchability propaganda.
4/12/1936Nehru urges Socialism for India.
2/2/1996Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair.
5/12/1949S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US.
10/11/1941Amitabh Bachchan, famous film actor, was born.
7/25/1955Indian Government declared in Lok Sabha that Portuguese's were asked to close their offices in New Delhi.
7/25/1955Malik Kafur, Alauddin Khilji's Commander, won the impregnable fort of Devgiri. The fort was entered by the enemy. Raja Ramdeva was taken prisoner and sent to Delhi where Alauddin recieved him untill his death in 1312.
9/29/1907Labour MP James Keir Hardie accuses UK of running India 'like the Czar runs Russia'