San Antonio Indian Community - SanAntonioIndian.net
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 5/17/1887

Ranglal Bandopadhyay, Bengali poet, essay-writer and journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1910Rajnath Pandey, great writer and educationist, was born in Pindra, Varanasi (U.P.).
5/20/1900Sumitranandan Pant was born.
3/25/199631st Gyanpith award presented to M.T. Vasudevan Nair at Trivandrum by Dr. Karan Singh.
7/22/1991New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament.
6/10/1928Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai.
5/11/1965The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country.
1/31/1969Saint Meherbaba passed away.
3/11/1997Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists.
9/23/1974First NCC Airforce Squadran (Women) was established at Vanasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan.
1/1/1981This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year for the Disabled"".