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Historical Event on 6/17/1993

Congress (I) working committee reaffirms its faith in Rao; BJP asks for PM's resignation .

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/11/1998C. V. Gadkari, great Indian Test all-rounder 1953-55, passed away.
2/5/1991The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
1/22/1963The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun.
12/29/1938Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi, famous litterateur, writer, poet and editor, died at the age of 74.
12/29/1938Property Tax was passed.
8/15/1969Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) formed under Department of Atomic Energy.
10/27/1987Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47.72, 1st-class avg 71), died.
11/29/1989Rajiv Gandhi resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India.
7/21/1963Kashi Vidyapeeth was given recognisation as University.
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.