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Historical Event on 12/17/1998

Jyotirmoyee bags her second gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's 800m. Rosakutty finishes second. Bantamweight pugilist Dingko Singh clinches a gold while Indian pair of Sethi-Shandilya strikes top prize in billiards doubles category.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1869Income Tax was imposed. On the same day New Indian Divorce Act came into operation.
7/21/1977Bhudevchandra Basu, famous animal expert, passed away.
4/18/1971Gavaskar makes 220 in second innings vs West Indies after 124 in first.
10/11/1999Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely.
10/16/1906Shankar Damodar Chitale, famous author and teacher, was born in Secundarabad.
6/19/1931Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa.
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
10/21/1989Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Harminder Singh alias Jinda sentenced to death for the murder of former Army Chief Gen. A. K. Vaidya.
10/21/1989Akbar himself left Agra.
11/2/1956Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons.