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Historical Event on 4/17/1996

Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/8/1985India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster.
8/29/1880Madhav Shrihari Ane, greatest Freedom fighter, was born.
2/3/1988INS Chakra was inducted in the Indian Navy when the first Soviet SSN Victor 1 class nuclear propelled submarine and India joined the maritime nuclear powers.
1/6/1942Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world.
3/25/1989India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation.
7/31/1658Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor.
3/10/1922Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati.
6/25/1975President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day.
12/4/1910Motilal, famous film actor, was born.
4/21/1994Malayalam sweeps national film awards. Mammootty, Shobhana best actor and actress; T.V. Chandran best director; Buddadeb Das Gupta's Bengali 'Charachar' adjudged best film.