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Historical Event on 4/17/1996

Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1992The 79,698 crore Eighth Plan launched.
1/25/1980Awards regarding Public Honour were re-started by Goverment of India; Mother Teresa was honoured by Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, etc.
4/11/1992Marathi cinema's Bhaichandra Govind Pendharkar gets Phalke Award.
7/24/2000S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad.
8/1/1958Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership given to Acharya Bhave.
7/6/1999The Indian High Commission staff member Yog Raj Vij, who was beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operatives, is released. India strongly condemns this assault.
11/13/1970Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed.
2/9/1929Abdul Rehman Abdul Gafur Antule, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Central Minister for Health, was born.
3/15/1969Indian Navy's first Helicopter Squadron was commissioned in Goa.
5/5/1947Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.