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Historical Event on 5/17/1999

Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/3/1945Temporary Octroi Mandal established.
7/11/1994Delhi IG (prisons) Kiran Bedi wins Magsaysay Award for public service.
2/10/1990Saroj Mukherjee, WB's CPI(M) secretary, died.
5/15/1998The Indian Army at Chandilora (Tangmey) captured 15 kg charas, 400 gm dust of charas and 12 kg leaves of charas.
2/3/1905Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur.
9/19/1965Government extends ultimatum to India to dismantle forts within four days in China.
1/20/1997The third Test between India and South Africa ends in a draw in Johannesburg.
5/22/1989IRBM 'Agni' Missile launched successfully from Chandipur, Orissa.
5/29/1982Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kerala, was approved by Union Cabinet.
1/17/1905Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988.