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Historical Event on 5/17/1949

India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/11/1985Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.
7/3/1908Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested as a traitor by the Britishers.
3/25/1898Dalpatrai (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Trawadi), modern Gujrati poet, passed away.
10/15/1999Maharashtra Governor P. C. Alexander asks both the BJP-Shiv Sena combine and the Congress(I) for proof.
12/12/1964HJT-16, the first Indian jet trainer, made its inaugural flight.
5/10/1993Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time.
2/18/1906Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, chief of 'Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh' (RSS), was born.
10/27/2000The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively.
4/30/1958Shiekh Abdulla taken into custody.
12/20/1957Kalinga Prize for 1957 awarded to Lord Bertrand Russell.