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Historical Event on 4/17/1996

Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/24/1998G.M.C. Balayogi of the Telugu Desam is elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha as the candidate of the BJP-led Government.
2/27/1996In the Jain hawala case, non bailable warrants of arrest issued against 10 politicians including BJP leader L.K. Advani, former Dy. PM Devi Lal and former Union Ministers.
9/2/1998Nishant, the pilotless training aircraft developed by DRDO, is successfully flown from Chandipore.
1/20/1988Shiv Charan Mathur sworn in as CM of Rajasthan.
8/7/1990Union Cabinet approves setting up of Indian Broadcasting (Programme) Service.
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
11/9/1997Poonam Chibber, Miss Canada, crowned seventh Miss India Worldwide.
8/30/1773Narayan Rao Peshwa was murdered by his uncle Raghunath Rao, also called Raghoba, who then proclaimed himself the Peshwa.
10/21/1989Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Harminder Singh alias Jinda sentenced to death for the murder of former Army Chief Gen. A. K. Vaidya.
11/27/1946London announces parley on India; Muslims accept, Hindus decline.