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Historical Event on 10/31/1999
Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President, is conferred with the Indira Gandhi Award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/16/1978 | Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad. |
| 7/23/1898 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born. |
| 8/15/1942 | Mahadev Haribhai Desai, an activist and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary, died of heart failure at Aga Khan's Palace. |
| 11/27/1998 | India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final. |
| 12/24/1891 | Chandra Singh Garhwali, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Masson, Patti Chauthan, Tehsil Thalisain, District Garhwal. |
| 1/19/1990 | Mr. Jagmohan takes over the administration in J&K as the new Governor after CM Farukh Abdulla resigns. |
| 9/10/1999 | Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final. |
| 9/10/1623 | Shah Jahan entered Rajputana and raided Amber crossing the Tapti. He arrived near the kingdom of Golconda and from there passed on to Orissa which was surrendered to him. |
| 11/3/1998 | The first geo-scientific data centre of the country is inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India. |
| 4/18/1959 | India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation. |
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