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Historical Event on 9/24/1999
India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/4/2000 | Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980. |
1/23/1809 | Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Khinda village in the north of Sambalpur at Orissa. |
9/5/1988 | The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill. |
12/22/1999 | CPI (M) is against India signing the CTBT. |
8/8/1912 | Prabhulal Bhatnagar, mathematician and Padmabhushan awardee, was born. |
12/27/1931 | 150 are arrested following 'red shirt' riots in the N.W. Frontier province. |
9/7/1996 | First phase of J & K Assembly elections. |
9/25/1990 | Sabyasachi Mukherji, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, aged 63, died in London. |
1/11/1858 | Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
11/1/1902 | Alwar Iyengar Jaggu, famous Hindi writer and professor, was born at Chatra Ghosham. |
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