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Historical Event on 9/1/1999

Ace athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; coaches Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh (athletics) and Gurbax Singh Sandhu (boxing) the Dronacharya awards during the Arjuna awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/20/1953India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA.
11/8/1960Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
6/20/1995B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1).
12/25/1964Indian Ocean hurricane kills 4,000 in Ceylon, 3,000 in Indian province of Madras.
4/1/1889Hindu', English language newspaper changed its perodicity from weekly (20/09/1888) to daily.
8/15/1969Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) formed under Department of Atomic Energy.
5/13/1995Renowned environmentalist Maurice F. Strong chosen for the Jawaharlal Nehru International Understanding awarded for 1992.
7/29/1884Tyagraj Paramshiv Kailasam, leading playwright of Kannad language, was born.
4/1/1962Metric weights became compulsory as New Weights and Measurements Metric system was intoduced by Indian Government.
1/2/1994Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections.