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Historical Event on 3/17/1999
An international seminar on UN Peacekeeping was co-jointly hosted by Ministry of External affairs and Ministry of Defence at New Delhi from 17 to 19 March 1999. The seminar was conducted by HQ Army Training Command, Shimla on behalf of the Indian Army. A total of 126 foreign delegates from 71 countries participated in the seminar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1929 | Narottam Morarjee, great social reformer and the architect of the modern Indian Shipping, died. |
| 10/24/1827 | Viceroy Lord Rippan (1880-1884) was born |
| 5/21/1923 | Keshavrao Kothavle `Lalit', editor of monthly magazine, was born. |
| 4/16/1992 | The PM gives a new slogan to the nation, 'Desh banao, desh bachao'. |
| 6/16/1990 | Bombay gets 42 cm rainfall, the century's highest. The previous high of 41 cm was recorded on 18, 1986. |
| 8/8/1911 | Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic. |
| 5/20/1992 | Jayalalitha sacks R. M. Veerappan from her cabinet in Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/22/1877 | Tarun Ram Phookun, ''Deshabhakta'', great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, was born in Gauhati, district Kamrup, Assam. |
| 10/19/1910 | Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
| 7/10/1984 | White Paper on Punjab released by Union Government. |
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