Seattle Indian Community - SeattleIndian
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Historical Event on 6/17/1991

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875-1950).

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/28/1976Second World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius.
3/18/1996President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces.
12/12/1959Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener 1981-92), was born in Madras.
2/4/1973India's then biggest commercial ship merchant fleet 88,000 DWT super tanker ""Jawaharlal Nehru"" commenced its services for the Nation.
3/3/1924Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim.
9/30/1996Phase I assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
7/7/1910'Bharat History Research Mandal' was established.
8/13/1960Marmik' weekly magzine published.
11/22/1915Mohandas Gandhi returns to India.
10/14/1910Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
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