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Historical Event on 4/17/1996

Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/3/1880Publication of 'Illustrated Weekly of India' started.
9/6/1903Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon tea in retaliation for British import policies in Moscow.
7/31/1996Joginder Singh became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/97).
5/2/1981Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, passed away.
5/9/1995Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine. More than 1,000 houses burnt.
2/11/1933The outcome of the conference was that diarchy in the province was abolished, federal system was established in the center, Sindh was separated from Bombay, communal awards were started by the Prime Minister of Britain Sir Ramsay McDonald and White Paper on Indian reforms was published in 1933.
2/16/1968Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon along with their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
6/3/1997Four women ministers (Renuka Choudhry, Kamala Sinha, Ratnamala Savanur & Jayanti Natarajan) join I K Gujral cabinet.
9/11/1967China and India exchange artillery fire on Sikkim-Tibet border.
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.