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Historical Event on 5/17/1999
Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/3/1982 | Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died. |
| 4/5/1614 | Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. |
| 10/10/1896 | Jananayak Debeswar Sarmah, freedom fighter, architect and nationalist, was born at Jorhat, Assam. |
| 7/5/2000 | Rachita Mistry breaks P.T. Usha's long-standing record in 100m (11.39s) clocking 11.26s in the National circuit meet in Bangalore. |
| 9/24/1777 | Sarfoji Bhosle, king of Tanjawar, was born. |
| 11/22/1999 | A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, expands cabinet as four more ministers join the ministry including Arun Shourie. |
| 1/4/1906 | Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta. |
| 11/3/1998 | Mamta Banerjee, the TMC leader resigns from Central Coordinating Committee of the BJP and Allies to highlight the issue of spiralling vegetable prices, but Vajpayee refused to accepts the resignation. |
| 7/29/1891 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur and Hindi writer, passed away in Calcutta. |
| 6/11/2000 | Rajesh Pilot, Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister, died in a road accident in his home constituency, Dausa. |
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