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Historical Event on 5/17/1887
Ranglal Bandopadhyay, Bengali poet, essay-writer and journalist, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/8/1910 | Tolstoy replies to Gandhiji that question of Passive Resistance is of greatest importance, not only for India but for humanity. |
6/3/1912 | Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, great industrialist, was born. |
10/23/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN. |
4/10/1997 | Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai. |
11/2/1956 | Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons. |
1/23/1972 | Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party; 100 die in New Delhi. |
1/2/1993 | Allahabad court allows 'darshan' at Ayodhya. |
10/13/1991 | PM Rao leaves for Harare to attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting. |
12/28/1998 | India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past. |
5/20/1957 | Tanguturi Prakasam, great lawyer, journalist, nationalist, politician, social reformer, leader and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, passed away at Hyderabad. |
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