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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
11/22/1872Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England.
9/10/1999Sonia Gandhi files her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency.
5/14/1999Gurucharan Singh Tohra is expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal.
5/14/1999Portuguese Catholics conquer Goa under Albuquerque, the then Governor, to serve as capital of their Asian maritime empire beginning conquest and exploitation of India by Europeans.
10/30/1976Elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament suspended again until early 1978.
7/7/1998India wins Singer-Akai Nidahas Trophy defeating Sri Lanka by six runs in the final at Colombo. New Zealand was the third team in the fray.
10/6/1949Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of National Defence Academy in Kharakvasla near Pune.
12/24/1905Sen Triguna, educationist and technologist, was born.
2/5/1986Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away.
9/14/199778 persons die and around 250 are injured as four bogies of Ahmedabad-Howrah Express de-rail while crossing a bridge on Hasdeo river near Champa Railway Station in Bilaspur district, Madhya Pradesh.