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Historical Event on 5/17/1949
India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/24/1921 | Rabindranath Tagore established ""Visva Bharati"" at Santiniketan with Brojendra Nath Seal as the chief guest. |
| 6/9/1923 | Idris Hassan Latif, Air Chief Marshal, was born at Hyderabad, Deccan. |
| 6/9/1923 | Amarsingh, Rajput king of Mewar, was born. |
| 8/23/1994 | Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan possessed a nuclear bomb and warned that an attack by India could start a nuclear war in Pakistan. |
| 4/14/1944 | Blast in ammunition loaded on 1,318 tonned freighter 'S. S. Fort Stikine' which was anchored in Victoria Dock at Bombay. The explosion killed 1376 people, wrecking 27 ships and destroying 40,000 tons of food. |
| 10/28/1911 | Mutyalswami Muniswami Naidu, cricket Test umpire, one test in 1951-52, was born at Vadodara, Gujarat. |
| 3/17/1987 | Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak. |
| 9/3/1931 | Dr. Chandreshwarprasad Rachamohan Thakur was born in Dubaha, Distt. Muzaffarpur (Bihar). |
| 11/11/1906 | Chetput Ramaswami Pattabhi Raman, politician and social worker, was born at Madras. |
| 1/9/1918 | Harprasad Nanda, famous Industrialist, was born. |
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