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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
1/20/2000J&K accepts the report of the State Autonomy committee tabled in the Assembly last year.
7/1/1955Imperial Bank of India was inaugurated and was renamed as State Bank of India.
9/8/1951The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions) was re-designated as CDA(P), Allahabad.
9/11/1921Subramania Bharati, freedom fighter, Tamil poet and editor, passed away at an early age of 39.
12/21/1788Sindhia arrested Gulam Qadir and killed him.
1/8/1984Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74.
11/9/1913Weekly 'Pratap' was published from Kanpur which was edited by Ganesh Shankar Vidyrarthi.
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.
6/1/1993Speaker disqualifies four Ajit group MPs.
9/20/1932Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" (hunger strike) in Poona prison to secure abolition of separate electorates for Harijans and untouchables.