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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 |
| 11/16/1921 | Nearly 700 Mopalh rebels were killed by the Gurkhas as they attacked the Pandikkad post at Delhi. |
| 11/29/1945 | Ugoslaviya in Rajshahi was ended. |
| 3/24/1995 | Devchand Somaiyya, famous Table Tennis player, passed away. |
| 12/7/1999 | Nareshwar Dayal is appointed India's High Commissioner to UK. |
| 6/3/1985 | The week comprising of five working days was implemented in Central Government Offices for its staff. |
| 4/20/2000 | A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V. |
| 3/1/1971 | Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc. |
| 8/13/1638 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, was born at Salwa. |
| 6/4/1955 | Ministry of Iron & Steel inaugurated. |
| 6/29/1873 | Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, died. |
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