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Historical Event on 10/17/1999

Indian men bagged bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/1990JD secures four-fifth majority in Orissa Assembly elections; Biju Patnaik becomes the new CM.
6/6/2000Abhijit Kunte wins the National `A' chess championship at Mumbai.
11/6/1962National Defence Council established.
5/4/1923Mrinal Sen, famous film director, was born.
12/5/1992V. P. Singh and hundreds arrested in Barabanki on the way to Ayodhya.
3/13/2000Parliament approves TRAI Bill seeking to bifurcate it into a Tribunal and a Regulator, with the Rajya Sabha passing the measure by a voice vote.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
7/7/1998India wins Singer-Akai Nidahas Trophy defeating Sri Lanka by six runs in the final at Colombo. New Zealand was the third team in the fray.
8/8/1936Corbett National Park was established. It was the first country in the country.
2/12/1996President S.D. Sharma in Kerala.