History of April 17: What all happened on this day?

Historical Significance of April 17 & take a look at the events happened on this day


Every day has some historical significance in history. To know what has happened on 17th April here is the chronological order of global historic events.

Historical events happened in India

Politician Chandra Shekhar born

Born in Ibrahimpatti, Uttar Pradesh, in April 1927, Shekhar served as the eighth Prime Minister of India.  between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress as a stop-gap arrangement to delay elections. The Indian economic crisis and the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi plunged his government into crisis.

Novelist Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai born

wrote over 30 novels and novellas and over 600 short stories focusing on the lives of the oppressed classes. Pillai was born in Kerala. He is famous by the name of ‘Takhizi’ name his birthplace, he has adopted. Pallia was awarded as Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award, for his works like ‘Coir’ and ‘Chemmeen’

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Monty Sharma born

Monty Sharma (born 17 April 1970) is a music composer from India scoring music for Bollywood. He is popular for being the background music composer for Black (2005), Ram-Leela (2013) and music director for Saawariya (2007).

 

1790 Benjamin Franklin dies

Born in Boston In 1706, Benjamin American statesman, printer, scientist and writer. In 1723 he moved to Philadelphia to work and started his own printing and publishing press. From 1732 to 1757, he wrote and published Poor Richard’s Almanack, an instructive and humorous periodical in which Franklin coined such practical American proverbs as “God helps those who help themselves” and “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

Keen in Science and technology, He invented Franklin Stove, and Bifocal eyeglass. The phenomena of electricity fascinated him. Many terms used in discussing electricity, including positive, negative, battery, and conductor, were coined by Franklin in his scientific papers. He was the first American scientist to be highly regarded in European scientific circles.

1815 Indonesian volcano erupts killing 80,000

Violent and heavy eruption of Tambora volcano in Indonesia, which started rumbling on 5th April killed almost 100000 directly and indirectly. The eruption was the largest ever recorded and its effects were recorded worldwide. The eruption was so huge that the sun was not seen for several days so much rock and ash were thrown out of Tambora that its height was reduced from 14.000 feet to 9,000 feet. Ten thousand people were killed by the eruptions, most on Sumbawa Island. In subsequent months, more than 80,000 people died in the surrounding area from starvation due to the resulting crop failures and disease.

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1917 second battle of Gaza Started

British army made a second attempt to capture Gaza from the Ottoman army. In the wake of the failed British assault on Gaza of March 26, 1917, Sir Archibald Murray, commander of British forces in the region, misrepresented the battle as a clear Allied victory, claiming Turkish losses to be triple what they actually were; in truth, at 2,400 they were significantly lower than the British total of 4,000. This led London’s War Office to believe their troops were on the verge of a significant breakthrough in Palestine and to order Murray to renew the attack immediately. However, Turks defeated them and captured three of their tanks. Suffering huge losses by Turks. The attack was called off and ending the Second Battle of Gaza with the city still firmly in Turkish control.

1941 Yugoslavia surrenders to Nazi’s

During world war II, Representatives of various Yugoslavia regions signed an armistice with Nazi’s at Belgrade. ending 11 days of futile resistance against the invading German Wehrmacht. More than 300,000 Yugoslav officers and soldiers were taken, prisoner. Only 200 Germans died in the conquest of Yugoslavia.

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