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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 |
| 8/26/1914 | Bengali revolutionaries looted 46,000 bullet ammunition and pistols from Calcutta Port for their revolutionary activities. |
| 1/31/1949 | Maharajas of Baroda and Kolhapur decide to merge their states with Bombay. |
| 4/13/1989 | Malayalam film 'Piravi' directed by Shaji N. Karun adjudged best feature film of 1988. |
| 11/19/1992 | M. Veerappa Moily selected to become the new CM of Karnataka. |
| 2/26/1915 | Pran Nath Chhuttani, great physician and teacher, was born. |
| 7/6/1995 | Five foreign tourists trekking in Kashmir 10 km uphill from Pahalgam were abducted by militants. |
| 12/11/1993 | Shankar Dayal Sharma, President, inaugurates the extended new wing of Nagpur Vidhan Bhavan. |
| 12/30/1929 | The first inland Indian air mail left New Delhi this morning for Jodhpur, Hyderabad, and Karachi to connect at Karachi with the air service to London. |
| 8/25/1994 | Ramdas Nayak, President of BJP Mumbai and former MLA was assassinated at Chembur, Mumbai. He was 52. |
| 5/1/1958 | Bell, 47 G3, the flight was upgraded to a helicopter unit with a Sqn Ldr as its Commanding Officer. |
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