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Historical Event on 05/17/1498
Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/5/1997 | Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to become an astronaut. (year 1997 or Oct. 5, 1998) |
| 6/27/1964 | Teen Murti Bhavan, official residence of the Prime Minister of India, became the Nehru Memorial Museum. |
| 1/5/1957 | Adintrim Sales Tax Act was introduced and the Central Sales Tax Act of 1956 came into force. |
| 11/19/1975 | Sushmita Sen, former Miss Universe and film actress, was born. |
| 6/1/1955 | India's Untouchability (Offence) Act comes into force. |
| 3/17/1920 | Mujiburr Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara now in Bangladesh. |
| 4/18/1914 | Jamshedji R. Patel, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1948-59, was born in Mumbai. |
| 7/23/1976 | Hari Chand at Montreal sets record for 10,000m in 28.48.72. |
| 3/24/1977 | Ban on RSS and 26 other organisations lifted. |
| 8/21/1995 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
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