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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
9/24/1992Union Labour Minister announces a new export-oriented emigration policy in place of the regulatory one.
2/5/1949Judgement on Gandhi's murder; Godse and Apte to be executed.
2/20/1997RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.
4/17/1952First Lok Sabha was formed. Ananthasaynam Ayyangar, was elected as the first Deputy speaker of Lok Sabha (1952).
7/31/1985Lalit Maken, Congress (I) M.P, his wife and a visitor at their residence in Delhi were shot down by terrorists.
1/18/1932Shyam Nandan Kishore, great educationist, was born at Muzaffarpur.
7/11/2000Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"".
5/12/1992Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest.
1/20/1992Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup.
9/22/1891Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away.