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Historical Event on 3/17/1999

An international seminar on UN Peacekeeping was co-jointly hosted by Ministry of External affairs and Ministry of Defence at New Delhi from 17 to 19 March 1999. The seminar was conducted by HQ Army Training Command, Shimla on behalf of the Indian Army. A total of 126 foreign delegates from 71 countries participated in the seminar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/16/1931Viceroy Lord Irwin meets Mahatma Gandhi for the first time.
2/1/1931Gandhi chiefs order campaign of civil disobedience to continue.
12/1/1764Battle of Anvadi.
12/9/1997Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth (95), doyen of Kannada literature and Jnanpith Award winner, died in Manipal.
3/1/1910The Dalai Lama is welcomed in Darjeeling.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
1/14/1959Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, emerges as leading choice for president in New Delhi.
8/1/1953Bombay Government decides to abolish ''jagirs'' in merged areas.
2/27/1997CBI arrests godman Chandraswami for alleged offences in violation of Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 1976.
4/24/199824 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.