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Historical Event on 5/17/1897
Dhirendra Varma, famous linguist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/5/1890 | Kishorlal Ghanshyamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, was born. |
| 1/16/1896 | Jaideva Singh, famous musician and educationist, was born Shohratgarh, U.P. |
| 3/25/1916 | S. M. Pandit, famous painter, was born. |
| 7/14/1997 | India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting. |
| 4/23/1926 | Madhavrao Sapre, great political leader, passed away. |
| 6/23/1935 | Ram Kolarkar, famous marathi author and editor, was born. |
| 2/15/1992 | Sain Swami Gangeshwaranandji, chief of `Udasin Sampraday', passed away. |
| 1/12/1901 | Umashankar Dikshit, senior leader of Indira Congress, was born. |
| 12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
| 2/27/1993 | Rupee made fully convertible in Man Mohan Singh's third successive budget. |
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