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Historical Event on 5/17/1991

Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/14/1758Emperor of England's charter allowed the East India Company to keep to any booty taken in war against the enemies of the king and the company. The confisticated goods, after the war, could be kept with them.
5/1/1964Ravishankar University was established at Raipur in Madhya Pradesh.
9/10/2000Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship.
5/18/1974Jayaprakash Narayan led a procession against economic conditions in Patna. There was lathi charged and he issued a call for total revolution. He also started the 'Citizens for Democracy' movement.
1/6/1989Lord Sudhindra Prasanna Sinha died.
11/1/1930S. R. Bose, cricket test umpire for one test in 1983-84, was born in Bihar.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
6/30/1993AN-12 phasing out marked the end of a glorious chapter of transport operations in the IAF.
4/3/1994Bhanu Prakash Singh,Goa Governor, resigns.
4/24/1980Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief.