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Historical Event on 10/17/1998
Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.

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10/16/1999	Congress (I)-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) combine is invited to form the Government in Maharashtra. Vilasrao Deshmukh to be sworn in as Chief Minister.
2/7/1864	P. S. S. Iyyer, famous lawyer and educationalist, was born.
4/15/1998	Punjab men and Railways women emerge champions in the National Volleyball League in Patna.
10/17/1920	Bhartiya Communist Party was formed at Tashkent with seven members including M.N. Roy, Birendra Chattopadhyay and Abani Mukherji.
11/1/1948	An Indian brigade group supported by the 7th Cavalry (Stuart tanks) broke through the Great Himalayan Range at Zojila to drive out the invaders from Ladakh district. At approximately 3,500 metres, this was the highest point in the history of warfare that tanks had operated.
10/28/1996	Goa upset Karnataka to win their first Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever.
9/14/1893	Celebration of 'Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav' (Festival of Lord Ganesha) started.
10/26/1943	Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
12/25/1999	An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.
6/4/1997	Defence Ministry denies Washington Post's report that India has deployed Prithvi missile on Punjab border with Pakistan.

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Historical Event on 10/17/1998 Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.

Historical Event on 10/17/1998
Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.