History of 17 April

Historical events of 17 April

1863 - American Civil War: Troops attacked Central Mississippi in the midst of Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson.
1864 - American Civil War: Confederate army invades Plymouth, North Carolina
1895 - The Treaty of Shimonoji is signed between China and Japan. This was the end of the first Sino-Japanese War.
1912 - Russian soldiers opened fire on striking goldfield workers in north-eastern Siberia, killing at least 150 people.
1941 - World War II: Yugoslavia's empire surrendered to Germany.
1945 - World War II: Montes, Italy was freed from Nazi forces.
1946 - The last French soldier came back from Syria.
1951 - The Peak District became the first national park in the United Kingdom.
1969 - Sihran was convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 - The Communist Party was abandoned by Czechoslovakia chairman Alexandr Dubeck.
1970 - Apollo Program: Apollo 13 spacecraft was safely back on Earth.
1971 - The People's Republic of Bangladesh was formed.
1975 - The Cambodian civil war was over and the Khmer Rouge captured the capital Phnom Penh.
1978 - Mir Akbar Khyber is killed in Afghanistan.
2006 - A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device at a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
2013 - An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas killed 15 people and injured 160 others.

17 April Famous People Birth

1961 - Billiards and snooker player of India Geet Sethi was born.
1985 - Wilfried Tsonga, a French tennis player, was born.

 Famous Persons Death on 17 April

1794 - William Jones, an English oriental scholar and scholar and initiator of cultural research related to ancient India, died.
1908 - Radhanath Rai, the leading poet of Oriya language and literature, died.
1946 - Social reformer of India VS. Srinivasa Shastri died.
1975 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan died.
2010 - Popular management expert CK named as Management Guru. Prahlad died.

Important Festival and Days on 17 April (Important Festivals and Days on 17 April) * _

● World Haemophilia Day
● Fire service week