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Historical Event on 4/17/1923

Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/15/1992Price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas hiked.
1/14/1758Emperor of England's charter allowed the East India Company to keep to any booty taken in war against the enemies of the king and the company. The confisticated goods, after the war, could be kept with them.
4/28/1993Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen.
6/23/1661Princess Catherine of Portugal wed King of England Charles II. Portugal gave island of Mumbai to England as present. The British got Bombay as dowry from Portugal.
2/3/1954Over 350 Hindus trampled to death in a stampede at religious rites at New Delhi.
2/19/1891Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper.
5/31/1987Daman and Diu to remain as union territories after Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
12/11/1996T. N. Seshan retires. M. S. Gill becomes the new election Chief Election Commissioner.
1/5/199860 are killed as the Bareilly-Varanasi passenger train rammed the Kashi Viswanath Express near Hardoiin, Uttar Pradesh.
11/1/1961First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748.