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Historical Event on 5/17/1996
Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/7/1849 | Bethune College of Calcutta was established in the upper class families and it was started for female education. |
| 6/11/1907 | Shantilal Jivanlal Gandhi, famous Hindi writer, was born in Mehmadabad, Gujarat . |
| 4/1/1998 | Prabhat Kumar, a 1963 batch IAS officer, was appointed as the new Cabinet Secretary of India. He succeeded T.S.R. Subramaniam and held the office till 31-10-2000. |
| 9/12/1965 | Army fights back heavy Indian tank attacks at Pakistan. |
| 10/1/1932 | Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years. |
| 3/18/1974 | Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away. |
| 4/23/1795 | East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges. |
| 12/28/1974 | Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first Chief Minister of Rajasthan State, died. |
| 6/10/1966 | MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik. |
| 6/27/1964 | Teen Murti Bhavan, official residence of the Prime Minister of India, became the Nehru Memorial Museum. |
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