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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 |
| 6/15/1986 | K. K. Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), was killed in a motor-scooter accident. |
| 11/16/1913 | Agnihotri Ambadas Shankar, journalist and litterateur, was born. |
| 7/20/1954 | Armistice for Indo-China signed. |
| 12/20/1850 | Atma Dev, social reformer and religious leader, was born. |
| 8/9/1997 | Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress plenary session at Calcutta. |
| 10/17/1994 | Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies. |
| 8/25/1963 | Allama Mashriqi, Muslim leader, passed away. |
| 12/28/1932 | Britain says it is to release 28,000 prisoners, including Gandhi. |
| 5/21/1923 | Keshavrao Kothavle `Lalit', editor of monthly magazine, was born. |
| 4/4/1996 | Supreme Court rules that political parties without audited accounts cannot take advantage of an election law that exempts tax expenditure on candidates. |
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