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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 |
| 3/13/1958 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80. |
| 12/11/1987 | Rajiv Government defeats the first ever no-confidence motion. |
| 10/26/1930 | Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay. |
| 3/29/1990 | Adoor Bhasi, Malayalam film actor, passed away. |
| 7/1/1989 | Yashvantrao Chavan Open University was established. |
| 2/28/1919 | Gandhiji signs Satyagraha Pledge to secure withdrawal of Rowlatt Bills. |
| 7/31/1907 | Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous ancient researcher and mathematician, was born. |
| 4/30/1908 | Khudiram Bose along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to throw a bomb at a carriage supposed to be carrying the tyrannical magistrate Kingsford. Unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death. |
| 3/23/1962 | Nawab of Pataudi captains Indian cricket team vs WI at the age of 21 years 77 days. |
| 8/2/1858 | British parliament passed the act to handover the administration of India to British Government from East India Company. After the occasion, the Supreme British ruler in India was called as 'Viceroy'. |
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