Know the major events of today’s Indian and world history on April 17

New Delhi: The major events of April 18 in India and world history are as follows – 1612 – Mughal emperor Shah Jahan married Mumtaz.
1621 – Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Guru of the Sikhs, was born.
1859 – Tatyan Tope, the leader of the 1857 rebellion, was hanged.
1906 – Earthquake and fire in San Francisco killed about 4000 people.
1917 – Mahatma Gandhi selected Champaran in Bihar for Satyagraha.
1930 – Surya Sen alias Master Da and 62 men of the Indian Republican Army raided the Chittagong armoury.
1948 – The International Court of Justice was formed in The Hague, Netherlands.
1950 – Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan movement from Pachampalli village in Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana).
1955 – The great scientist Albert Einstein passed away.
1971 – The country’s first jumbo jet aircraft named Samrat Ashok 747 landed in Mumbai.
1978- Shobha Singh, father of noted writer Khushwant Singh, passed away.
1980 – Zimbabwe declared independence from Britain.
1991 – Kerala was declared the first fully literate state of India.
1994 West Indies batsman Brian Lara made a world record for most runs scored in an innings of a Test match by scoring 375 runs.
2001 16 soldiers of India were martyred by the firing of Bangladesh army that entered the Indian border.
2013- 27 killed, 65 injured in bomb blasts in Iraq’s capital Baghdad.
2014- Avalanche on Mount Everest kills 12 climbers from Nepal.
2021 – Anupama Panchimanda – India’s former international hockey umpire passed away.