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Historical Event on 5/17/1999

Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/30/1994Mrinalini Desai, freedom fighter and famous litterateur, died.
4/14/1944Blast 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.
2/17/1994Bihar leader Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav and Mizoram's Dr. C. Silvera inducted into Union Cabinet.
4/5/1961Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited was established in New Delhi by Indian Government for allopathic drugs.
4/10/1997Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.
3/16/1998Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.
3/1/1992Anant Gundopant Tendulkar, great journalist, passed away.
2/13/1856East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom.
8/17/1996CBI seizes another Rs. 65 lakhs from Sukh Ram's residence.
5/30/1999India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.