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Historical Event on 6/17/1991

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991).

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1857Queen Victoria declared as Queen of India also.
6/20/1858Gwalior fort was captured by British troops and the first Indian Sepoy Mutiny officially came to an end.
5/17/1916Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore.
2/25/1992Railway budget proposes 20\% hike in upper class passenger fares.
4/14/1990Veena Vidwan S. Balachander passed away.
3/14/1995Chandragupta Chaudhary 'Comred ', senior leader of Bhartiya Communist Party, passed away.
7/28/1997Calling and holding of bandhs by political parties and other associations or organisations declared 'Illegal and unconstitutional' by a Full Bench of the Kerala High Court.
2/14/1976Urban Land Ceiling Regulation Act comes into force.
1/11/1994Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away.
5/8/1933Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables.