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Historical Event on 11/20/1999
World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/19/1994 | The Tamil Nadu Bill for continuance of the 69\% reservation policy in the state receives the President's assent. |
| 12/10/1952 | World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India. |
| 8/15/1772 | Divani and Faujdary courts seperated by East India Company. |
| 9/4/1980 | Second Commonwealth Regional Heads of Government Conference in New Delhi. |
| 5/8/1933 | Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables. |
| 2/17/1993 | Rani Gaidinliu, freedom fighter, social reformer and political leader, died at her native village in Manipur. The British army made a surprise attack on her position and captured her. On 17th October, 1932, Pandit Nehru once wrote ""A day will come when India will remember her and cherishe her"". |
| 12/29/1972 | Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced. |
| 7/8/1918 | Montagu - Chelmsford Report was published. This report was prepared to reform the legislature of India. This report was made by Edwin Montagu who was the Secretary of States for India and Lord Chelmsford, who was the Viceroy. |
| 7/27/1928 | Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP). |
| 3/12/1917 | Googie Withers, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing), was born in Karachi, India. |
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