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Historical Event on 3/17/1999

GM Dibyendu Barua and IWM S. Vijayalakshmi (both India) won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Asian Zonal chess championship in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/6/1881Saint Gulabrao Maharaj was born in Vidarbha.
1/20/1995Supreme Court orders closure of 84 industries in and around Taj Mahal in UP due to pollution.
12/4/1999A batch of 1,690 Indian soldiers leave for Sierra Leone to join the U.N. Mission to implement the peace accord.
5/1/1996Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case).
8/10/1989Panchayatraj' and 'Nagarpalika' bills were passed in Parliament's Lok Sabha.
12/15/1965Maharastra State Agriculture Industry Development Corporation established.
2/6/1932Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, passed away.
5/31/1977Major Premchand and Naik Nima Dorji Sherpa, in the team on Indian Army Treckers, reached the peak of Kanchenjunga. They were amongst the first Indians to reach this peak.
5/9/1907Two thousand dacoits riot in eastern Bengal.
6/6/1998All IAF Meteorological Sections were put on high alert from 06 Jun 98, and constant interaction with India Meteorological Department (IMD) at Mumbai and the (IMD) Centre at Ahmedabad resulted in 24 hours tracking and plotting of the cyclone, which was passed down as forecasts to Service and civil authorities in the Saurashtra and Kutch region.