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Historical Event on 3/17/1999
GM Dibyendu Barua and IWM S. Vijayalakshmi (both India) won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Asian Zonal chess championship in Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/26/1956 | Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great social reformer, industrialist, patriot and founder of the Kirloskar Industries, passed away at the age of 88. |
| 9/26/1956 | Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
| 9/26/1956 | Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder of Portuguese power in India, died at the age of 73 years. |
| 12/14/1979 | Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer, two Tests for India and bowling average of 205, died. |
| 7/18/1857 | The Calcutta, Mumbai and Madras Universities were established. |
| 4/26/1946 | V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter. |
| 3/30/1994 | Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy. |
| 8/20/1921 | The Mopla revolt, one of the important uprisings of India, was started at Kerala. |
| 1/21/1820 | Dalpat Rai, modern Gujrati poet, was born. |
| 7/28/1972 | India and Pakistan sign Simla Pact, settling border dispute in Kashmir. |
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