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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
10/1/1993Two more Election Commissioners appointed.
7/4/1999S. Vijayalakshmi won the National women's `A' chess championship with a round to spare in Kozhikode.
12/23/1926Swami Shradhanand, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker and politician, was assassinated by a revolver shot that was fired by a young Muslim Abdul Rashid.
3/3/1939Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention.
3/31/1871Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, freedom fighter and loyal Congress leader 'Lion of Karnataka', was born.
8/20/1995Indira Mahila Vikas Yojana launched.
9/29/2000Tata Ramachandra Prasad to be the next Cabinet Secretary.
10/17/1940Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.
11/2/1999BJP suffers jolt in Bihar as it fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats.
6/9/1998The rupee plunges to an all-time low of Rs. 42.23/25 against the dollar.