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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
11/3/19843,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India.
1/25/1983Telugu Desam swept to power in Andhra Pradesh.
7/4/1902Swami Vivekanand (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta), Indian religious leader and social reformer, died at Memorial Rock, KanyaKumari. His brilliant career came to a sudden end only at the age of 39.
4/13/1940Najma Heptulla, Vice President of Rajya Sabha, was born.
5/12/1995India refused to sign NPT in its present discriminatory form.
11/27/1999BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats.
4/25/1998India protests against Pakistan raising the Kashmir issue at the first SAARC Information Ministers conference in Dhaka.
4/1/1889Dr. Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS), was born.
6/1/1930Baba Adhav was born.
7/20/1955Suez Canal nationalised by Gamal Abdul Nassar.