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Historical Event on 10/16/1999
Indian women claimed bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1977 | Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died. |
| 1/22/1993 | A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off. |
| 2/16/1962 | General Election ( 3rd) of India begins. |
| 1/5/1952 | Nawab of Pataudi Sr, cricketer (played polo 3 Tests for England 3 for India), died. |
| 7/22/1998 | 24-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. |
| 9/12/1922 | Chandradhar Sharma Guleri passed away. |
| 11/10/1922 | S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka. |
| 9/9/1947 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great philosopher, linguist, art historian, painter and critic, died at Needham, Boston. |
| 1/25/1988 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran, MGR (Posthumous) (1917-1987). |
| 7/1/1930 | Vinodkumar C. Gupta, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
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