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Historical Event on 7/17/1947

Ramdas Coastal Steamer sank off Bombay claiming 550 lives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/30/1993LPG, Petrol dealers get higher commission.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
6/23/1946Gandhiji advises Congress not to enter Interim Government, but only Constituent Assembly.
10/17/1997Prime Minister lays foundation stone of the Science City being set up at Jalandhar, Punjab.
10/21/1995L.K.Advani unanimously re-elected BJP president for the fourth time in New Delhi.
8/20/1969Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India.
8/21/1995Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
4/22/1993Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike.
9/4/1862Kaminikumar Chanda, social reformer and politician, was born.
6/18/1993Advani takes over as party President.