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Historical Event on 4/17/1998

BJP Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta retains his Lok Sabha seat in the Udhampur-Doda-Kathna constituency defeating National Conference's Rajinder Kumar Chib by over 50,000 votes.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/12/1958Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
11/22/1989General Election ( 9th) of India begins for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in 5 states.
12/14/199410 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion.
9/4/1929N. Hanumantha Rao, cricket test umpire for 9 tests from 1978-84, was born in Karnataka.
2/1/1917Samar Roy, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1961-70, was born in Bengal.
7/18/1994Munis Raza, famous educationist and former Chancellor of Delhi University, passed away.
7/23/1927Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station.
7/23/1927Taimurlang passed away.
5/12/1955The PM laid the foundation stone for the National Museum.
7/11/1953Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu was born in Mumbai (Mahatrahtra).