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Historical Event on 5/17/1974
Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/26/1996 | Parliament's budget session opens. |
| 12/12/1925 | Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in 2 Tests for India 1959), was born in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 11/5/1999 | Malcom Marshall, legendary West Indian fast bowler, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after battling colon cancer for over six months. |
| 6/7/1965 | Ashutosh Kali, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 11/11/1980 | The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic.' |
| 5/18/1775 | Warren Hastings expressed doubt of hanging Nandkumar. |
| 12/12/1996 | India and Bangladesh arrive at a settlement to share Ganga water. |
| 3/21/1937 | Muhammad Jaffer, great Indian Hockey player, was born. |
| 10/3/1999 | India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore. |
| 2/20/1953 | India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA. |
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