17 May - India on this day26 events
Hindi daily 'Bharat Mitra' started from Calcutta.
Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore.
Ranglal Bandopadhyay, Bengali poet, essay-writer and journalist, passed away.
Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away.
Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe.
Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests.
Import of 106 life-saving drugs and 37 equipments allowed.
Three North Eastern States removes restricted area permits (RAP).
Two workers belonging to Mamsapuram near Srivilliputtur ''burnt alive'' at neighbouring Edayankulam by its residents who took them hostage.
V. S. Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on one foot for continuous 33 hrs.
Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), passed away.
Sher Shah defeated Humayun for the second time at Hardoi in U.P. in the battle of Kanauj.
Marathas were badly mauled in the battle of Arras by Col. Keating in the first Anglo - Maratha war.
India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
Nar Bahadur Bhandari voted out in Sikkim; Sikkim Sangram Parishad leader Sanchaman Limboo takes over as CM.
Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns; Dy. CM Wilfred D'Souza elected to succeed.
Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relation.
US President Bill Clinton wants India and Pakistan to sign CTBT.
The Union Cabinet clears a proposal for setting up a new appellate tribunal for foreign exchange following the repeal of the FERA and the enactment of FEMA in its place.
Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it.