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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 |
| 5/31/1921 | Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born. |
| 5/28/1997 | Former Union Ministers Arjun Singh, N.D. Tiwari, R.K. Dhawan and Madhavrao Scindia discharged in the Jain hawala case by special judge V.B. Gupta. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 2/22/1913 | Judge Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Lucknow. |
| 9/1/1962 | Shivaji University was established in Kolhapur. |
| 12/30/1953 | The Untouchability (Offences) Bill published in the Gazette of India. |
| 12/15/1950 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, first deputy Prime Minister of independent India also known as the 'Iron Man' and Bharat Ratna awardee, died. |
| 10/20/1997 | All India Hindu Conference begins at Hardwar. |
| 1/31/1992 | The Securities and Exchange Board of India given statutory power as an autonomous body. |
| 2/2/2000 | The Government decides to appoint former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah as the Chairman of the National Commission to review the Constitution. |
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