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Historical Event on 5/17/1992

R. Venkataraman, President, leaves for a six-day visit to China.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/27/1906Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day.
10/17/1994Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies.
7/16/1996Supreme Court says dowry demand even during marriage talks is an offence.
2/19/1919Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born.
2/21/1829Kittur Rani Channamma, revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away.
1/22/1989DMK swept to power in Tamil Nadu Assembly election.
8/4/2000Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and the last member of the British royal family to bear the title ''Empress of India'', celebrated her 100th birthday.
1/17/1997Government rules out granting dual citizenship to NRIs.
11/30/1915Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telgu poet, died.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.