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Historical Event on 7/17/1937

Delhi-Calcutta Express Train derailed near Patna killing 95.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/10/197761 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini.
1/25/1957Kashmir becomes Indian state.
3/18/1916Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay.
11/10/1938Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul.
6/21/1940Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS), passed away.
11/8/1927Lal Krishna Adwani was born in Karachi (now in Pakistan).
4/4/1904Kundan Lal Saigal, golden voiced singer, legend in his lifetime, actor and film maker, was born in Jammu. Some of his famous songs are ""Ek Bangla Bane Nayara"", ""Diya Jalao"", ""Jab Dil Hi Toot Gaya"".
6/28/1986Union Government sanctions maternity leave for unmarried women employees too.
4/23/1795East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges.
4/23/1795Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi.