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Historical Event on 5/17/1957

Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/22/1993Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike.
12/14/199410 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion.
1/6/1976Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
11/5/1999The CBI arrests the Bihar Road Construction Minister Illiyas Hussain and conducts raids in the Bitumen scam case.
8/4/2000Pranab Mukherjee and S. Jaipal Reddy, Congress(I) leaders, get Best Parliamentarian awards for the year 1997-98.
8/4/1936Indian Government Act was approved by the king.
10/10/1962Indies assault up Chinese positions in north India attack
5/10/1917Ramanand Maru Amin, great novelist, was born in Baloor, Mangalore.
12/13/1999The Railways announces concessions for senior citizens, students upto Class X and the poor.
6/30/1991A 36-member Congress ministry led by Hiteswar Saikia assumes office in Assam.