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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
1/24/1999The Orissa police arrest 47 persons in connection with the killing of the Australian missionary.
1/16/1941Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born.
11/23/1908Durga Das, famous social reformer and journalist, was born.
3/4/1996King of Bhutan arrives in India for a three-day state visit.
4/19/1994Rajindersing Sparo, first awardee of `Mahavir Chakra' and former Chief Minister of Punjab Major General, passed away.
9/17/1960Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.
3/17/1959Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet.
6/11/1999India provided incontrovertible tape evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the Kargil sector. The Indian army killed 23 intruders in the Batalik and Dras sectors but lost 15 of its men.
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.
3/3/1859A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.
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