|
|
Historical Event on 5/17/1999
Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/16/1933 | Mahatma Gandhi goes on fast for being denied to continue the anti-untouchability propaganda. |
| 11/1/1996 | Three national parties (Indira Congress, Janata Party and Samata Party) to lose their recognition as national parties as they failed to get the minimum required support in the general election to the 11th Lok Sabha. |
| 12/5/1657 | Murad proclaimed himself Emperor of India. |
| 11/30/1920 | N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born. |
| 10/30/1928 | Madhav Vinayak Gothoskar, cricket Test umpire for 14 tests from 1972-84, was born in Mumbai. |
| 6/19/1999 | The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart. |
| 9/25/1919 | Rayat Educational Institute (Rayat Shikshan Sanstha) was established. |
| 3/24/1974 | Lokprabha weekly started its publication. |
| 7/15/1903 | Kumaraswamy Kamraj, great freedom fighter, social reformer, political leader and member of the Lok Sabha, was born in a trading family at Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/22/1971 | Indian and Pakistan governments protested violations of national airspace along the western border, but aerial conflict between the respective air arms began, preceding full-scale warfare between India and Pakistan by 12 days. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
