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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 |
| 9/10/1911 | Jatin Chakravorty, social reformer, politician and trade unionist, was born at Comilla, Bangladesh. |
| 11/27/1999 | BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats. |
| 1/17/1833 | William Rush, Indian sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), passed away. |
| 10/11/1737 | A violent earthquake and cyclone hit Calcutta which claimed 3,00,000 lives. |
| 2/24/1899 | Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born. |
| 6/5/1961 | Ramesh Krishnan, Indian tennis star, was born. He was also the winner of Junior Wimbledon 1979. |
| 4/6/1942 | During the second world war, for the first time Japanese air-bombers attacked India, and the mainland took place at Visakhapatnam. |
| 3/3/1847 | Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 1/1/1879 | Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born. |
| 1/29/1939 | Ramkrishna Mission Sanskritik Sansthan (Institute of Culture) was established. |
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