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Historical Event on 8/17/1944

Indian Viceroy Viscount Wavell rejects Gandhi's request to discuss war support in return for Indian independence.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/28/1895Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born.
6/24/1974India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins.
2/10/1916Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged.
6/6/1981The worst-ever railway accident took place in Bihar when a train plunged in Samastipur river.
4/1/1933Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.
7/11/1897Sibnath Banerjee, great social worker, freedom fighter and leader, was born in village Brahman Rangdia, Khulna district.
9/30/199724th Stock Exchange of India set up at Trivandrum.
12/15/1951Scindia's SS Jal Pushpa launched.
4/3/1999India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
2/6/195555 miners die in explosion in Bihar State.