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Historical Event on 1/17/1999
Madhya Pradesh won its maiden Wills Trophy championship, defeating Bengal in the final of the limited overs cricket championship in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/16/1983 | Kapil Dev took 9-83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. India still lost the game. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 1/5/1995 | Jitendra Prasad succeeds N.D. Tiwari as UPCC-I chief. |
| 12/21/1999 | The Gujarat Government asks the Hindu Jagran March to go-ahead with the 'Shilanyas' for a Ram temple at Halmodi in Surat district. |
| 10/24/1657 | Kalyan and Bhiwandi came under the rule of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. |
| 3/3/1700 | Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj died of lung infection due to smallpox at Sinhagad fort. |
| 1/29/1993 | Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman. |
| 1/30/1999 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna. |
| 11/2/1999 | The Delhi HC dismisses a plea against Sonia Gandhi seeking deletion of her name from the register of Indian citizenship. |
| 1/16/1941 | Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born. |
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