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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
11/25/1998Prof. K. S. Hegde (75), former Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University and educationist, dies in New Delhi. He was selected by the Government of India for overseas scholarship for post graduate studies and higher technical training abroad during the pre-independence era.
10/13/1978Maharashtra branch of Forward Block Party merged in Indira Congress.
7/14/1997India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting.
6/5/1996United Front Govt's Common Minimum Programme announced.
1/12/1996Supreme Court holds that horse racing is not gambling, but a game of skill.
9/7/1995Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh CM, wins the vote of confidence. He received 227 votes. 31 were neutral.
11/17/1973Mother Pondicherry, greatest teacher and religious leader, died.
12/10/1902Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.
7/21/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission.
4/12/1752Agreement to save the king between Shinde and Holkar.