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Historical Event on 10/16/1999
Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the "Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99'
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/5/1992 | Centre scraps octroi in Union Territories. |
| 7/5/1992 | Saint Eknath, bhagwatbhakt, passed away. |
| 11/1/1949 | Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India. |
| 8/6/1998 | The Maharashtra Government rejects the Srikrishna Commission findings on the 1992-93 communal riots and the serial blasts in Mumbai, but agrees to act on the panel's suggestions to refurbish the police force. |
| 1/30/1996 | Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard. |
| 1/1/1931 | Gopi Chand Narang, great educationist and Urdu scholar, was born at Dukki. |
| 4/14/1990 | Over 90 persons killed in an Airbus crash in Bangalore. |
| 4/21/1995 | Medium range 'Akash', surface-to-air-missile, flight trial successful. |
| 1/18/1925 | Gajanan Johari, famous Marathi writer, was born. |
| 4/2/1980 | Raj Narain expelled from Lok Dal forms Janata (S) Party. |
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