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Historical Event on 5/17/1916
Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/20/1869 | Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great industrialist, social reformer, patriot and founder of Kirloskar Industry, was born at Belgaum. |
| 1/19/1966 | Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
| 11/17/1999 | 41 more ministers are inducted into the Ram Prakash Gupta Ministry in Uttar Pradesh taking the strength of the ministry to 91. |
| 10/16/1959 | National Council of Women's Education was inaugurated in New Delhi. |
| 10/16/1959 | Babur's eldest son Humayun ascended the throne. He was, doubtless, a man of parts. |
| 2/28/1987 | The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event). |
| 1/1/1992 | Petrol and diesel price hiked in 11 states to make it uniform all over the country. |
| 8/3/1957 | Devdas Gandhi, son of Rashtrapita Mahatma Gandhiji and noted journalist, passed away. |
| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 5/11/1930 | Ganesh Narayan R, great Industrialist, was born. |
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