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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 |
| 3/10/1939 | 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India. |
| 10/5/1890 | Kishorlal Ghanshyamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, was born. |
| 12/3/1991 | Lok Sabha question hour telecast at 7.15 a.m for the first time . |
| 12/6/1997 | Nine persons killed and over 60 injured in bomb blasts in three trains which left Chennai. Blasts occurred in Tiruchi, Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Trissur in Kerala. |
| 8/29/1998 | Prasar Bharti ordinance promulgated. |
| 1/9/1946 | Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, famous Hindi poet, Gujarati litterateur, writer, headmaster and innovator of duel meaning phrases, passed away. |
| 8/10/1979 | Rohini Technology Payload (RTP) intended for measuring in-flight performance of first experimental flight of SLV-3, the first Indian Space launch vehicle, failed to be placed in orbit. |
| 4/23/1991 | Major parties agree to have polls in Punjab. |
| 6/18/1940 | Forward Block Party was established. |
| 6/3/1916 | Smt. Nathibai Damodar Thakarsey Women's University was established. |
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