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Historical Event on 5/17/1993
Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns; Dy. CM Wilfred D'Souza elected to succeed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/6/1881 | Saint Gulabrao Maharaj was born in Vidarbha. |
| 8/20/1986 | A restructured 20-point programme announced. |
| 1/11/1975 | Oil struck in third Bombay High rig. |
| 8/23/1995 | First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta. |
| 3/11/1795 | Battle at Kurdla India, Mahratten beat Mughals. |
| 1/15/1998 | Binda Prasad Kashyap, 73, CPI leader, passed away in Nagpur. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 5/30/1977 | Express Train fell into Beki river in Assam killing 44 persons. |
| 10/27/1923 | Arvind Navinchandra Mafatlal, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 6/6/1997 | New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being. |
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