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Historical Event on 1/16/1999

Ritwick Bhattacharya (Delhi) and Mekhala Subedar (Maharashtra) won the men's and women's titles in the National squash championship in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/27/1887Sardar Davar Tehmuras Kavasji, social worker and lawyer, was born.
3/1/1910The Dalai Lama is welcomed in Darjeeling.
4/12/1801Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab.
4/24/1974Ramdhari Singh alias 'Dinkar', veteran famous Hindi writer and poet, passed away.
4/26/1991Syed Shahabuddin filed nominations for two seats as a candidate of two different parties within 24 hours.
8/17/1986In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".
5/21/1984Army moves in after 114 die in religious strife at Bomay.
6/6/1997New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being.
4/2/1953Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist and writer, passed away.
6/11/2000Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.