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Historical Event on 10/17/1999

Chiranjeev Milkha Singh won the Lexus International Golf tournament in Bangkok.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/27/1999P.M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
6/1/1959The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India.
6/3/1997Four women ministers (Renuka Choudhry, Kamala Sinha, Ratnamala Savanur & Jayanti Natarajan) join I K Gujral cabinet.
1/18/1947Kundanlal Saigal, famous film star and unique singer, died at Jalandhar.
4/8/1923Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week.
4/1/1963Delhi Special Police Establishment acquired its popular current name Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) through a Home Ministry resolution passed.
12/23/1900Charansingh Chaudhary, former Prime Minister of India and a farmer's leader, was born.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
4/17/1977Swatantra Party was merged in Janata Party.
5/31/1921Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born.