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Historical Event on 5/17/1957
Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/17/1987 | Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 7/16/1990 | O.P.Chautala resigns following directive from JD. |
| 11/18/1973 | Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, passed away. She came to India in 1914. |
| 2/1/1972 | International Airports Authority of India established. |
| 5/27/1992 | M. L. Manchanda, AIR's Patiala engineer who was kidnapped by Babbar Khalsa militants, was found executed. |
| 11/6/1951 | Judge M. Patanjali Sastri became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 03/01/1954. |
| 12/19/1919 | Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal. |
| 5/6/1944 | Mahatma Gandhi was released unconditionally from his last imprisonment from Aga Khan Palace at Pune. |
| 3/12/1995 | Congress party loses India national election. |
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