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Historical Event on 5/17/1993
Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relation.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/25/1606 | Guru Arjun Dev, spiritual leader of Sikhs and Hindus, was massacred at the instruction of Emperor Jahangir. |
| 11/13/1998 | Tendulkar blazes as India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah beating Zimbabwe in the final. |
| 10/21/1947 | The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Lahore was bifurcated and the pension work relating to Indian nationals was transferred to Allahabad. |
| 11/20/1859 | Elfinstone, Governor of Bombay Province and historian, passed away. |
| 3/1/1995 | Iftikar, famous character actor, died. |
| 6/11/1964 | Dr. Jayant Narlikar, great mathematician of India, submitted his thesis to Royal Society of London. |
| 9/5/1888 | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India's first vice-president and second president, was born at Tiruttani near Madras. |
| 9/12/1998 | India, Malaysia sign an agreement on cooperation in science and technology in Kuala Lumpur. |
| 8/11/1911 | Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born. |
| 1/25/1988 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran, MGR (Posthumous) (1917-1987). |
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