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On this day, Apr.17……

1675 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj attacked the Fonda fort and won Karwar.

1799 – Srirangapatnam was surrounded by British Army in the fourth and last Mysore war which began in 1798. Tipu Sultan was killed in the battle on 4th May. The East India Company announced the Sringapatanam Medal (1799).

1930 – Synthetic rubber. The discovery of a new rubber-like compound was recorded by Dr. Arnold M. Collins in his laboratory notebook.

1952 – First Lok Sabha was formed in India.

1961 – 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.

1964 – Geraldine Mock became first woman to complete a solo airplane flight around the world.

1977 – Swatantra Party was merged in Janata Party.

1983 – India entered space age, launching SLV-3 rocket.

1999 – The Vajpayee Government resigns after it loses the confidence vote in the Lok Sabha by one vote – 269 to 270.

2018 – Protests across India at the rape and murder of an 8-year old girl in Kathua (J&K).

Born….

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1926 – Chandrashekhar, eighth Prime Minister of India.

1977 – Dinesh Mongia, cricketer.

RIP….

1790 – Benjamin Franklin, American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, and diplomat. He invented a type of stove, still being manufactured, to give more warmth than open fireplaces and the lightning rod. He used bifocal eyeglasses; also, were his ideas.

Titbits….

1875 – Modern Snooker invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain in Jabalpur.

You may have known….

The wood frog can hold its bladder for up to eight months.

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}