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Historical Event on 4/17/1999

The Vajpayee Government resigns after it loses the confidence vote in the Lok Sabha by one vote - 269 to 270.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/30/2000Gen. S. Padmanabhan takes over as the new Chief of the Army Staff from Gen. V. P. Malik.
5/15/1864Mahavirprasad Dvivedi, famous Hindi litterateur, poet, writer and editor, was born at Daulatpur village in UP.
2/2/1862Pandit Shambhunath was the first Indian to become Judge of Indian High Court.
9/10/1915Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore.
4/2/1994Governor Bhanu Prakash Singh dismisses Wilfred D'souza Government in Goa.
5/6/1944Mahatma Gandhi was released unconditionally from his last imprisonment from Aga Khan Palace at Pune.
12/21/1788Sindhia arrested Gulam Qadir and killed him.
11/11/1923Shamasunder Gururaj Mudgal, great educationist, was born at Bijapur, Bagalkot.
4/12/1917Mulvantrai Himatlal Mankad better known as ""Vinoo Mankad"", cricketer (India's greatest all-rounder to his time), was born at Jamnagar.
10/2/1982Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance minister of India, died.