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April 17 is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 258 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
April 17: Evacuation Day in Syria ( 1946) Modern reconstruction of Kaunas Castle. 1362 – Lithuanian Crusade: After a month-long siege, forces of the Teutonic Order captured and destroyed Kaunas Castle (reconstruction pictured), which was defended by troops of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1783 – The Mechanical Turk, a fraudulent chess ...
April 1: April Fools' Day; Iranian Islamic Republic Day ( 1979 ) Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham (pictured) opened the first section of the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
Nirmala Srivastava, also known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (21 March 1923 – 23 February 2011) Nisargadatta Maharaj [30] (17 April 1897 – 8 September 1981) Nishkulanand Swami (1766–1848) Nischalananda Saraswati (born 30 June 1943 145th Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Govardhan Math) Nityananda Prabhu (born 1474)
1867 - William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel; 1867 - Birth of Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1928) 1901 - Birth of E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988) April 24:
January 1. 1614: John Wilkins born. 1815: Charles Bernard Renouvier born. 1921: Ismail al-Faruqi born. 3. 106 BC: Cicero born. 1901: Eric Voegelin born. 4. 1642 ...
Scroll down for a look at famous people born in 1974 and celebrating a milestone birthday this year. Celebrities Turning 50 in 2024 ... Getty Images. Feb. 17, 1974. Photo by: Nathan ...
662688000 – 694223999. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1991. 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1991st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 991st year of the 2nd millennium, the 91st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1990s decade. It was the ...