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Historical Event on 5/17/1976

4 Indians successfully skied down from the slope of Trishul peak.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/11/1964Dr. Jayant Narlikar, great mathematician of India, submitted his thesis to Royal Society of London.
6/11/1964
7/1/1997Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme `97 (VDIS) comes into effect.
3/6/1991Chandrasekhar resigns as PM.
1/8/1984Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74.
5/9/1908Arkalgudun Krishnarao, Kannad writer, was born.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
10/3/2000Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buys peace with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to a partial rollback of the hike in prices of petroleum products.
7/14/1997India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting.
6/30/2000The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council adopts a resolution seeking separation from J&K.