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Historical Event on 5/17/1991

Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/10/1997Salman Haidar appointed India's High Commissioner to Britain. He succeeded M. L. Singhvi.
3/1/1905Karmaveer Bhausaheb Hire was born.
1/5/1957Adintrim Sales Tax Act was introduced and the Central Sales Tax Act of 1956 came into force.
11/5/1956University Grants Commission Act sets up UGC.
10/23/1999A Boeing 707 carrying Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and his entourage lands safely at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai following a suspected tyre burst.
6/3/1890Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, was born.
11/20/1917J.C. Bose Research Institute was established in Calcutta.
11/20/1917Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.
9/28/1965India-Pakistan hostility erupts into a war lead by Pakistan.
1/17/1989Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.