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Historical Event on 5/17/1887

Ranglal Bandopadhyay, Bengali poet, essay-writer and journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/1/1992Indirabai Khadilkar, famous singer, died.
2/19/1995National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established.
5/4/1992India and Russia sign a five-year agreement on trade and economic cooperation.
9/24/1936It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity.
5/22/1993Karnataka special task force guns down Veerappan's brother and righthand man Arjunan.
9/16/1973Abasaheb Mujumdar, great musician, died.
1/27/1974President V. V. Giri inaugurated the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Museum and it was opened for public at Teen Murti House, New Delhi.
1/23/1996Maharashtra govt. winds up the inquiry commission headed by Justice Srikrishna set up to probe the communal riots in Mumbai in Dec. 92-Jan. 93.
9/26/1911Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal.
7/26/1910Unrest flares up in the Deccan region of India. Demand grows for self-determination.