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Historical Event on 4/17/1904

Naoomal Jeoomal Makhija, cricketer, pioneer Indian Test opening batsman, Right Arm Bowler and played 3 matches, was born at Karachi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/8/1988Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.
7/1/1879Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department.
8/14/1987A soldier in a guard of honor attacks Indian Prime Minister Gandhi with his rifle butt at Sri Lanka.
12/4/1919Inderkumar Gujral, former Prime Minister of India, was born at Jhelum (Pakistan).
3/12/1992Centenary celebrations held at Kasturba Hospital for Infections diseases. (CIVIC).
10/9/1994Kamal Bose, great photographer, died.
10/9/1994Surdas (1483-1563), blind Hindi bard and singer of Agra whose hymns to Krishna are compiled in the 'Sursagar', was born in Sihi village near Delhi.
9/17/1960Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.
4/19/1995Rajendra Kumari Bajpai appointed the Lt. Governor of Pondichery.
9/18/1803Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India.