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Historical Event on 5/17/1998
US President Bill Clinton wants India and Pakistan to sign CTBT.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/27/1901 | Gandhiji moves resolution on South Africa at Congress. |
| 5/19/1951 | Sukhdev Bihari Mishra of Mishra Brothers, first historian of Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
| 1/3/1997 | Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha. |
| 5/20/1999 | The CWC expels Sharad Pawar, M. P. A. Sangma and Tariq Anwar for six years from the primary membership of the party. |
| 3/28/1997 | Final phase of repatriation of Chakma and other tribal refugees of the Chittagong Hill Tracts from Tripura begins. |
| 5/13/1962 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) |
| 8/1/1990 | Devi Lal, Dy. PM, dropped from Union Cabinet following wild charges he made against colleagues in an interview with the 'Illustrated Weekly'. |
| 3/1/1993 | India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its ""Akash"" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'. |
| 4/22/1994 | Sushil, great Jain Muni Acharya, passed away. |
| 9/25/1990 | L. K. Advani, BJP President, starts his Somnath Temple, Ayodhya Rath Yathra. |
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