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Historical Event on 4/17/1990
Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/6/1861 | Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, great Indian lawyer, political leader and social reformer, was born at Agra. |
| 6/19/1871 | Madhavrao Sapre was born. |
| 2/25/1992 | Railway budget proposes 20\% hike in upper class passenger fares. |
| 11/29/1961 | First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India. |
| 4/15/1963 | Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler), was born in Ghaziabad. |
| 12/29/1844 | W.C. Bonerjee, first President of the Indian National Congress, was born in Kidderpore, Calcutta. |
| 11/27/1976 | Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar, famous journalist, novelist and critic, passed away. |
| 6/11/1932 | Minu Modi, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 10/3/1977 | Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in New Delhi. |
| 10/22/1997 | Faced with unprecedented Presidential rebuff, a divided U.F. Government reversed decision on invoking Article 356 in Uttar Pradesh. Kalyan Singh government survived. |
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