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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 |
| 4/13/1988 | Mother Teresa asks Margret Thatcher for help to set up a hostel for London's elderly homeless in UK. |
| 11/9/1924 | Pandit C. R. Vyas, veteran singer, was born. |
| 5/10/1996 | PM P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Council of Ministers resign. |
| 5/3/1994 | Election Commission recognises DMK headed by M. Karunanidhi as the rightful claimant to the symbol of rising sun and the flag reserved for it. |
| 2/14/1976 | Urban Land Ceiling Regulation Act comes into force. |
| 6/1/1842 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born. |
| 10/26/1930 | Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay. |
| 9/28/1996 | Sukh Ram sent to Tihar jail in assets case. |
| 9/28/1996 | Ruknud-din Firuz Shah, son of Emperor Iltutmish, was assassinated. |
| 1/31/1963 | Peacock declared as National Bird of India. |
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