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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
3/3/1983Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.
9/15/1903Wazir Syed Ali, right-hand batsman and right-arm fast medium bowler, was born at Jalandhar.
3/20/1926For the first time in the history of the competition, Scotland beats England for rugby's Calcutta Cup in London.
9/13/1965Pakistanis bomb Bombay.
7/10/1965First NCC (National Cadet Corps) College for training girls started at Gwalior.
6/23/1993RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%.
1/20/1952Vasant Patankar, famous Marathi writer, was born.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
2/22/1977Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled.
1/11/1986The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.