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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 |
| 12/1/1966 | Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union. |
| 6/12/1997 | Mihir Sen, long distance swimmer, died. |
| 2/12/1997 | Standard Bank tri-series final between India and South Africa abandoned due to rain. |
| 9/14/1933 | Gandhi declares one-year moratorium on civil disobedience in India. |
| 1/1/1910 | Rajnath Pandey, great writer and educationist, was born in Pindra, Varanasi (U.P.). |
| 1/23/1997 | Statue of Subhash Bose unveiled inside Parliament House. |
| 8/8/2000 | S.Nijalingappa (97), former Karnataka Chief Minister, died at his residence in Chitradurga. |
| 4/15/1874 | Tryambak Sitaram Karkhanis, founder of `Maharashtra Natak Mandali', was born. |
| 4/15/1874 | Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
| 6/20/1948 | Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union. |
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