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Historical Event on 5/17/1916
Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore.
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| 12/12/1958 | Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur. |
| 3/5/1997 | Pravin Thipsay wins the United Insurance GM chess tournament in Dhaka. |
| 3/25/1983 | Chalpati Rao, great journalist, passed away. |
| 8/22/2000 | Parliament okays two Constitutional Amendment Bills restoring relaxations in marks for promotion in government jobs to SC/STs and exempting Arunachal from reservation for SCs. |
| 2/15/1924 | Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar. |
| 1/4/1909 | Prabhakar Padhye, modern Marathi litterateur, was born. |
| 7/13/1905 | Premnath Bazaz, famous Kashmir freedom fighter, was born. |
| 12/14/1924 | Ranbir Raj Kapoor, famous film producer, director and actor, was born. |
| 2/6/1994 | Ram Mahadik, Congress leader, passed away. |
| 12/15/1912 | Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born. |
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