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Historical Event on 5/17/1974

Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/1958Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated.
7/3/1908Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested as a traitor by the Britishers.
5/15/1949Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan.
5/12/1955The PM laid the foundation stone for the National Museum.
1/29/1983Indira Gandhi names 12 new ministers as Cabinet resigns.
10/3/1988Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh after 30 months of being held captive.
3/5/1922Ebrahim Suleman Maka, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests vs West Indies1952), was born at Daman.
5/6/1993Violence in Orissa state secretariat, CM manhandled.
5/29/1906Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay.
3/24/1998200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district.