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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
8/9/1965Pakistan chose to persist while the Indian Army Corps on the ceasefire line got down to neutralizing the Gibraltar Force. As a first step, main infiltration routes were blocked and Pakistan was forced out of the Haji Fir bulge (known to them as Bedori).
9/20/1998A. B. Bardhan is re-elected CPI general secretary.
8/3/1905Uma Datt Sraswat, famous writer, was born at Biswan in U.P.
12/15/1965Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river.
4/24/1993Congress dissidents K. N. Singh, Natwar Singh, K. L. Fotedar and Shiela Dikshit suspended.
12/11/1998Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) died at 1850 hrs today.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
1/18/1970Kishan Singh at Cuttack sets record for 50 Km W.in 4.19.48.
6/6/1903Hiralal Sen shot the first Indian Advertisment sequences for Jabakusum (hair tonic) and Edward's Tonic.
12/19/1919Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal.