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Historical Event on 12/24/1999

Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/21/1990Former Union Finance Secretary S. Venkatramanan appointed Governor of RBI. B. Rachaiah and Dr. Sarup Singh sworn in as Governors of Kerala and Gujarat respectively.
1/5/1990Mohammad Azharuddin was made captain of Indian cricket team.
1/18/1977Morarji Desai and other opposition leaders were released from jail and Lok Sabha was dissolved by the president during the emergency period.
12/20/1904Virendranarayan Chakravorthy, former Indian Ambassador in England and Governor of Haryana, was born.
5/15/2000Ghulam Hassan Bhat, Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Power, dies in a powerful IED explosion near Mandipore in Anantnag.
6/19/1979Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party.
2/8/1936Jawaharlal Nehru elected president of Indian National Congress.
10/14/1996Sukh Ram granted bail.
4/2/2000Guru Granth Sahib is a juristic person and can hold property, says the apex court in a judgment of ''far-reaching consequences and great significance''.
8/16/1991C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away.