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Historical Event on 5/17/1974

Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/20/1995B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1).
9/10/1923Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away.
12/6/1907Revolutionaries looted Chingaripota station.
2/15/1967Fourth General Election of Lok Sabha begins.
7/16/1981India performs nuclear Test.
8/30/1983Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle.
7/28/1994Uproar in Parliament over the Government's rejection of JPC report.
11/11/1923Shamasunder Gururaj Mudgal, great educationist, was born at Bijapur, Bagalkot.
11/3/1996Deve Gowda, PM, to attend G-15 summit in Harare. This was his first foreign trip as PM.
1/1/1950Inauguration of National Chemical Laboratory at Mumbai.