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Historical Event on 9/17/1899

First British troops leave Bombay for South Africa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/11/1985Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.
1/1/1880Money order system was introduced.
4/14/1944Blast in ammunition loaded on 1,318 tonned freighter 'S. S. Fort Stikine' which was anchored in Victoria Dock at Bombay. The explosion killed 1376 people, wrecking 27 ships and destroying 40,000 tons of food.
9/21/1999Mr. A. C. Muthiah was elected president and Kapil Dev the senior coach at the Board of Control of Cricket in India AGM in Jaipur.
11/1/1996Three national parties (Indira Congress, Janata Party and Samata Party) to lose their recognition as national parties as they failed to get the minimum required support in the general election to the 11th Lok Sabha.
11/3/1991India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested.
6/23/1993Motilal Vohra made governor of UP.
12/1/1989V. P. Singh is named the new prime minister.
2/26/1984Satellite Insat 1-B dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
4/10/1997Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai.