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Historical Event on 4/17/1952
First Lok Sabha was formed. Ananthasaynam Ayyangar, was elected as the first Deputy speaker of Lok Sabha (1952).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/29/1957 | The National Civil Defence College was founded at Nagpur as the Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI). It functions as the training wing of the Emergency Relief Organisation of the Government of India. |
| 9/22/1952 | Bapiraju Adiv, famous Telgu novelist, poet and author, died. |
| 8/29/1998 | Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi. |
| 5/12/1952 | Washington welcomes its first female ambassador, India's Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 10/15/1990 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918), the South African black nationalist leader who arrived in India on a five-day visit. He is the first non-Asian to get this honour. |
| 9/29/1977 | India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water. |
| 8/6/1997 | Army confirms social activist Sanjay Ghose's death who was abducted by ULFA. |
| 2/4/1628 | Shahjahan was enthroned and proclaimed emperor at Agra. |
| 11/16/1860 | First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa. |
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