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Historical Event on 2/17/1618
First English Ambassador Sir Thomas Roe returned to England after meeting Emperor Jahangir in his court.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/27/1605 | Akbar (Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din), Mughal emperor of India (1556-1605), passed away of diarrhea or dysentery at the age of 63 years. After his death his body was buried at a mausoleum in Sikandra, Agra. |
| 10/30/1996 | Former PM Narasimha Rao appears before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at the Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, New Delhi, as an accused in the St. Kitts forgery case. |
| 6/9/1998 | 81 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone. |
| 4/16/1918 | Lalita Pawar, famous actress of Indian film industry, was born. |
| 12/17/1990 | N. Janardhan Reddy sworn in as CM of Andhra Pradesh. |
| 10/27/1907 | Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died. |
| 10/20/1920 | Censor Board, after examining the film 'Ahilya Uddhar' on October 20, started mentioning the number of reels as well as the length in feet on the Censor Certificate. The film had already been released earlier on August 23, 1919. |
| 10/21/1997 | Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet. |
| 1/27/1995 | K.V. Krishna Rao, J&K Governor, gets another term. |
| 4/16/1930 | Rioting continues in India as British police fire on mob of 10,000. |
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