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Historical Event on 5/17/1857
Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/11/1979 | Cellular Jail, which is situated at Andaman Nikobar Islands, was declared as a National Memorial. |
| 2/8/1986 | For the first time in the country, pre-paid taxi sevice scheme was established at New Delhi airport. |
| 4/29/1939 | Netaji resigned from the Congress and established his own party, the Forward Block and created a political deadlock in India. |
| 8/14/1987 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour. |
| 10/10/1946 | Noakhali Massacre. |
| 2/25/1999 | The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively. |
| 9/25/1984 | Indian Army withdraws from the Golden Temple; repair of Akal Takht complete. |
| 3/4/1925 | Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away. |
| 9/22/1789 | Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department. |
| 3/12/1941 | Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India. |
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