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Historical Event on 5/17/1916

Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore.

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7/29/1987India and Sri Lanka sign peace accord at Colombo in a bid to end the 5-year old ethnic trouble. This stance taken thereafter by the LTTE added several dimensions to the scenario. It was a multi-purpose role that the Navy has been required to play.
11/5/1915Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born.
2/8/1967Indira Gandhi was hit in face by a stone while addressing crowd.
10/28/1947Sheikh Mohammad Abdulla invited to form an interim government in J&K.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.
9/29/1981Delhi-Srinagar Indian Airlines Boeing 737 flight was diverted to Lahore, Pakistan by five Khalistan activists of the Dal Khalsa International. On board there were 117 passengers out of which 66 were freed on arrival in Lahore.
1/22/1858Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was sentenced to death.
12/29/1984Rajiv Gandhi claims for Indian Prime Minister post after his landslide majority in 8th General Elections.
4/10/1955India and Vietnam affirm the Panchsheel.
11/12/1958Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival.