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Historical Event on 8/17/1909
Madanlal Dhingra, famous revolutionary, was hanged at Paintanville Jail for assassinating Wyle and Lal Kaka.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/24/1855 | First long distance telegram message was opened between Agra and Calcutta at a distance of 1,300 km. |
| 5/5/1946 | Simla Conference in session from May 5 to May 12; Gandhiji's deliberations prove anfractuous. |
| 7/25/1958 | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated. |
| 1/28/1846 | British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal. |
| 11/17/1835 | James Todd, researcher and writer of Rajput history, passed away. |
| 9/5/1846 | Sir Charles Metkaf, Governor General of East India Company, died. |
| 2/22/1997 | Jockey Mark Gallagher shot at and injured in Bangalore. |
| 11/23/1983 | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the seventh biennial Commonwealth Summit, meets in New Delhi. |
| 5/30/1962 | 69 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad. |
| 1/21/1882 | Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born. |
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