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Historical Event on 11/17/1999

41 more ministers are inducted into the Ram Prakash Gupta Ministry in Uttar Pradesh taking the strength of the ministry to 91.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/10/1997Salman Haidar appointed India's High Commissioner to Britain. He succeeded M. L. Singhvi.
1/4/1995IAF batch (Angel of Mercy) returns from Somalia after 16 months of stay and 700 sorties.
12/27/1931150 are arrested following 'red shirt' riots in the N.W. Frontier province.
6/13/1998India rejects G-8 prescriptions saying they are ''coercive and intrusive'' and intend to freeze the nuclear weapon capabilities of New Delhi and Islamabad.
10/5/1997Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country.
6/24/1897Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat.
5/20/1991A. S. L. V. was launched.
9/7/1955All India Council of Secondary Education set up by the Government.
2/7/1922Britain threatens crackdown in India to combat Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign.
12/1/1993World AIDS day.