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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
5/7/1973The foundation stone was laid of Itanagar, the new capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
11/10/1938Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul.
9/3/1997Anjan (Lalji Pandey), well known lyricist and noted poet, died.
12/27/1929Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag at the All India National Congress session held in Lahore. They resolved for ""Purna Swaraj"" (complete independence) on the instance of Gandhiji, the Viceroy of India that time was Lord Irwin.
9/10/199587 of the 180 members of the newly constituted JAAC assume office.
1/28/1877Pulin Bihari Das, revolutionary journalist, passed away.
9/1/1995Chandrababu Naidu assumes office as the new CM of Andhra Pradesh.
12/16/2000Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu.
7/15/1936Hridayanand 'Kumaresh' Tiwari, great Hindi poet and writer, was born in Reoti, U.P.
12/3/1790Lord Cornwallis took away the regulation power from Nawab Murshidabad and Sadar Nizamat was removed from Adalat in Calcutta.