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Historical Event on 5/17/1994

Nar Bahadur Bhandari voted out in Sikkim; Sikkim Sangram Parishad leader Sanchaman Limboo takes over as CM.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
2/14/2000The Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court judgment quashing the State Government's Ashraya scheme for providing plots to the poor.
2/19/200018 people die following a fire on the Ferozepur-bound 2137-down Punjab Mail between Dushkeda and Savada stations near Bhusaval, about 433 km from Mumbai.
2/5/1992Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar.
9/23/1999India rejects Pakistan's proposal for an international conference on arms control.
3/16/1928C.V. Raman announced his discovery of ''new radiation'' to an assembly of scientists at Bangalore.
1/9/1889Dr. Vrindavanlal Varma, famous Hindi writer and social reformer, was born in Jhansi. He mainly wrote historical and social novels, most famouse being ""Mriganainee"".
1/15/1996Restoration of the original name of the city as ""Mumbai"" for Bombay Vide Maharashtra Act No, XXV of 1996.
12/17/1740Chimaji Appa, Peshwa warrior, died.
1/4/1992The goverment promulgates an ordinance to prevent countermanding of election in the event of death of independent candidates.