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Historical Event on 5/17/1949
India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/25/1997 | India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance. |
| 5/31/1928 | Pankaj Khirod Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad), was born in Calcutta. He was the recipient of Padmashree (1975). |
| 2/14/1994 | V. P. Singh elected JD Chief in place of S.R. Bommai who stepped down. |
| 10/28/1984 | Federal agents early this morning caught Guru Shree Rajneesh trying to flee the country. Rajneesh was charged with violating immigration laws and arranging phoney marriages for his cult members. The religious leader was nabbed at Charlotte, North Carolina airport when his jet, bound for Bermuda, touched down for re-fueling. The Bhagwan ran a commune of about 1,500 people in Oregon. Thousands more cult members live in Rajneesh's native land India and other countries. He knew the federal government had no faith in him after his chief adviser, a woman named Ma Anand Sheela, was arrested in West Germany for several minor offenses. Rajneesh appeared in court on this date clad in a lavender robe. |
| 8/13/1911 | Guha Phulrenu, social worker, was born. |
| 2/5/1991 | The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India. |
| 5/25/1996 | Kathapurushan' wins best film national award. |
| 2/20/1827 | Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, great social worker and founder of `Satyashodhak Samrajya', was born in Pune. |
| 12/20/1904 | Virendranarayan Chakravorthy, former Indian Ambassador in England and Governor of Haryana, was born. |
| 4/14/1990 | L. P. Poarbosa sworn in as CM of Goa. |
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