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Historical Event on 4/17/1946

Bellary Raghava, famous actor, social worker, lawyer and dramatist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1983Amravati University established.
3/29/1998The new govt. wins the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.
1/12/1869Dr. Bhagavan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur, was born at Varanasi.
11/20/1947Parliament gives Indian government censorship powers over press at New Delhi.
9/30/2000India's Priyanka Chopra (18) wins the Miss World beauty pageant.
7/16/1917Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, was born.
5/24/1999Noted wrestling coach Dronacharya awardee Guru Hanuman passed away in a road accident near Meerut.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
8/2/1919Bharat Bhushan Agrawal, famous poet and winner of Sahitya Academy Award, was born.
2/7/1990Krishan Kant became the Governor of Andhra Pradesh till 21/08/1997.