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Historical Event on 10/17/1999
Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National Boxing championship which concluded in Shimla.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/19/1982 | Acharya J. B. Kripalani, writer, nationalist, parliamentarian, founder of Kissan Mazdoor Dal and president of Indian National Congress in 1946, passed away at the age of 94. |
| 7/19/1998 | The INSAT-2C satellite suffers ``disorientation'' - loss of earth lock - briefly. |
| 7/19/1998 | Shahaji Raje Bhosale, father of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was born. |
| 11/6/1937 | Yashwant BipinBihari Sinha was born in Patna (Bihar). |
| 10/29/1930 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail. |
| 9/7/1997 | Banned Maoist Communist Centre guns down at least 30 CPI (M) liberation activists, including district committee members and workers, at Ankendar village, 40 km from the district headquarters of Chatra in Bihar. |
| 1/15/1784 | Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution. |
| 1/15/1784 | King Birbal, renowned wit and one amongst the 'Navratna' of Emperor Akbar's Court, died in a war with Usuf Jard Kabile. |
| 3/6/1947 | Churchill opposes troop withdrawal from India at London. |
| 2/20/1868 | Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali. |
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