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Historical Event on 5/17/1996
Four members (Sange Sherpa, Hira Ram, Tashi Ram, Nadre Sherpa) of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition climb Mount Everest from the Chinese side.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/16/1788 | Maratha's crowned Shahaalam as king of Delhi. |
| 7/1/1906 | Pulavar Kulandai, great author and poet, was born at Bhavani. |
| 1/3/1922 | Kirat Chothairam Babani, versatile Sindhi Writer and Journalist, was born. |
| 10/15/1866 | Vasudevacharya Kerur, famous Kannad novelist, playwright and journalist, was born. |
| 2/1/1968 | United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi. |
| 5/25/1894 | Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 1/19/1997 | Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta. |
| 1/29/1870 | 'Hicleche Bengal Gazette' newspaper published in India. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
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