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Historical Event on 9/17/1799

Parshuram Bhau Patwardhan, an able leader and diplomat of Madhavrao Peshwa kingdom, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/25/1856Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians.
1/25/1856Saint Chokhoba passed away.
10/5/1991Ramnath Goenka, journalist and founder chairman of the Indian Express Newspapers Group, died at the age of 87 years.
1/17/1987Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar.
8/2/1988The Supreme Court confirmed death sentence on Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh in Indira Gandhi murder case.
10/26/1952Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts .
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
1/9/1919Theophane A. Mathias, educationist, was born.
1/3/1987Arvind Deshpande, famous actor, died.
10/9/1976International Dialing Telephone Service started between Mumbai and London.