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Historical Event on 6/17/1991

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875-1950).

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12/30/1964500 people seized by Chinese spies.
11/20/1955Polly Umrigar scores India's first Test double century, 223 vs NZ.
8/3/199835 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed.
12/4/1989Hardeo Joshi replaces Shiv Charan Mathur as CM of Rajasthan.
9/15/1953S. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected as the first lady President of the eighth session of the United Nations Organisation's (UNO) General Assembly.
7/1/1989Yashvantrao Chavan Open University was established.
6/1/1944M. V. Dhurandhar, famous master painter of Maharashtra, passed away.
3/22/1938IRFA was registered as a local body not administered by the Government on March 22, 1938 under the Government of India Act No. XXI of 1860.
3/16/1995World's best 7th wkt stand of 461 runs by Bhupinder Singh Jr. & P. Dharmani.
7/29/1901Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War.