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Historical Event on 4/17/1977

Swatantra Party was merged in Janata Party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/11/1911Shrimati Lalitadevi, wife of second Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri, was born.
3/4/1951Eleven countries and 489 male and female athletes participated in the first Asian Games started at National Stadium in New Delhi.
11/19/1961World Council of Churches convened their third assembly at New Delhi during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.
9/28/1954137 people were killed when an Express Train fell from a flood-damaged bridge near East of Hydrabad.
7/5/1981Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory.
11/17/1915Vishnu Gopal Pingle was hanged for revolting against the Indian Army in Talegaon prison of Pune.
10/17/1999Chiranjeev Milkha Singh won the Lexus International Golf tournament in Bangkok.
1/30/1948Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence, was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi was shot at point-blank range as he was walking through a garden to a pergola, where he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting.
9/29/1942The British police shot Matangini Hazra, a 72-year old woman of Tamluk town in Midnapur district, when she was leading the flag at Tamluk in August movement procession.
1/26/1997Delhi becomes the first state in India to enforce a ban on smoking in all public places.