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Historical Event on 10/17/1999
Indian men bagged bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1985 | Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum. |
| 4/15/1942 | George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta. |
| 9/7/1996 | Ajit Singh quits Congress and heads Tikait's party. |
| 8/25/1998 | Resurgent India Bonds garner more than 4 billion dollars of which 30\% are from the Middle East, 20\% each from South east Asia, US and Europe. |
| 7/17/1948 | Govt. announced that all discriminations against women in matter of employment will be done away with and in future, women will be eligible for any public service including administrative sevice and police service. |
| 2/5/1981 | Kuda Bux, great Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), passed away at 75. |
| 7/21/1995 | Sajjad Husain, famous film music director, passed away. |
| 4/22/1991 | IMF and the World Bank decide to grant $1 billion loan to India. |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 10/14/1980 | S. N. Banerjee, cricketer--one Test for India and 249 runs 10th wkt stand on tour, died. |
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