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Historical Event on 6/17/1991

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991).

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/25/1999PSCB emerged men's and women's champions in the inter-institutional table tennis in Gandhidham.
2/1/1969Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta.
7/24/1993Vajpayee elected leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha.
7/27/1941Japanese forces land in Indo-China.
10/6/1779Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born.
12/14/1946Sanjay Gandhi, youth Congress leader, was born in New Delhi.
11/7/1995G-15 summit concludes calling for South-South cooperation and reduction of trade barriers, tariffs among the member countries, stability of interest and exchange rates.
1/1/1980This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"".
1/24/1976Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries.
2/15/1997Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi.