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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
5/26/1993The Centre decides to implement the Mandal Commission recommendation to provide 27\% reservation for the socially and educationally backward classes in the Central Services from 15th June.
5/21/1930A raid of nationalists on salt works in Dharasana results in 630 casualties and the arrest of Mrs. Naidy, leader of the civil disobedience campaign.
5/22/1993Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
2/25/1993113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action.
11/27/1998India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.
3/3/1978Origin of Saka Era (India).
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
9/9/1981Phiroz Edulji Palia, cricketer (two Tests for India, 29 runs & 0/13), died.
8/23/1995First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta.