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17 July: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 17 July.
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Year 1947
The Indian passenger ship SS Ramdas was destroyed by a storm in Mumbai, killing 625 people.
Year 1948
Women in India were considered eligible to be admitted to all public services including IAS and IPS.
Year 1950
India’s first plane crashed in Pathankot.
Year 1955
Walt Disney launched Disneyland in California.
Year 1995
Forbes magazine named Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the world’s richest person.
Year 2000
Bharatanatya Shikharmani Award announced to actress and dancer Vaijayantimala Bali.
Year 2007
TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.
Year 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
Year 2014
A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
Year 2015
At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.
Year 2018
12 new moons are discovered orbiting Jupiter
Born 1915
Bijon Bhattacharya, Indian actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1978)
Born 1917
Bijon Bhattacharya, an Indian theatre and film actor.
Born 1923
John Cooper, a co-founder of the Cooper Car Company.
Born 1930
Baburao Bagul, a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.
Born 1941
Bharathiraja, an Indian film director.
Born 1957
Admiral Sunil Lanba, the 23rd Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy.
Born 1969
Ravi Kishan, an Indian actor, politician, and television personality.
Died 1790
Adam Smith, a Scottish economist, and philosopher.
Died 1835
U Tirot Sing, one of the chiefs of the Khasi people.
Died 1992
Kanan Devi, an Indian actress, and singer.
Died 2012
Marsha Singh, Indian-English politician (b. 1954)
Died 2020
C. S. Seshadri, an Indian mathematician.