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Historical Event on 4/17/1990
Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/9/1874 | First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai. |
| 6/28/1972 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945. |
| 2/25/1992 | Railway budget proposes 20\% hike in upper class passenger fares. |
| 1/14/1995 | Ban on VHP re-imposed. |
| 2/27/1912 | Vishnu Waman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj', great Marathi poet, play-wright, novelist and Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Awardee, was born. |
| 2/12/1990 | The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved. |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
| 2/9/1985 | Editor of 'Sakal', a Marathi daily newspaper, passed away. |
| 7/21/1891 | Jairamdas Doulatram, great leader, journalist and freedom fighter, was born at Karachi. |
| 6/6/1961 | Central Institute of Fisheries Education, a deemed university, was established in Mumbai to impart post-graduate education and training, mainly to the in-service fisheries personnel of the country to provide trained manpower for the fisheries developmental activities. |
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