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Historical Event on 5/17/1976
4 Indians successfully skied down from the slope of Trishul peak.

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10/28/1998	The 1997 B.C. Roy National Award was presented to 18 medical experts.
2/17/1976	New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India.
8/23/1933	Mahatma Gandhi was released from government detention in the Poona Civil Hospital after doctors warned that his fast was endangering his life. Gandhi, who undertook the fast eight days ago in protest over being arrested again by British authorities, weighed 90 pounds at the time of his release. There was considerable speculation over what the nationalist leader would do upon regaining his strength, but the common assumption was that he would be arrested again by the British authorities if he resumed his civil disobedience.
8/23/1933	Meerabai, saint poet, passed away.
5/17/1873	Hindi daily 'Bharat Mitra' started from Calcutta.
4/13/1993	Lalitadevi Shastri passed away.
8/12/1991	Parliament passes the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (prevention) amendment bill.
1/12/1948	Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji.
11/17/1948	Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers.
2/23/1962	The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).

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Historical Event on 5/17/1976 4 Indians successfully skied down from the slope of Trishul peak.

Historical Event on 5/17/1976
4 Indians successfully skied down from the slope of Trishul peak.