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Historical Event on 5/17/1992

Import of 106 life-saving drugs and 37 equipments allowed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/27/1978Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland.
1/16/1997Dr. Datta Samant, Trade Union leader, shot dead in Mumbai.
11/1/1999Soli Sorbajee is re-appointed the Attorney General.
9/29/1993National Human Rights Commission set up.
2/26/1976V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.
2/1/1785Warren Hastings left India on Feb 8 and attended the Council meeting for the last time.
1/12/1934Surya Sen (Master Da), revolutionary leader of the Indian Republican Army, who attacked the armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army, was hanged at Chittgong Jail by the Britishers.
10/10/1978Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'.
2/1/1988The first Congress of the Indian Dental Association begins. (28-1-88).
3/27/1977The government revoked the national Emergency promulgated on Dec. 3, 1971.