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Historical Event on 1/29/1999

Alok Kumar of Punjab defeated Devendra Joshi of Maharashtra at the IIT complex at New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1978Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif, PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Aug/1981.
9/23/1996Sitaram Kesri elected provisional president of Congress (I).
7/27/1947Princes were appealed to regard people's paramountcy as a privilege.
5/25/1997Seven Pakistani infiltrators are killed in an encounter with BSF in Ranbir Singh Pora.
11/8/1991K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab.
7/21/1975Hindi Post Guards was established by Government.
12/16/1999Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin).
3/26/1993Surajkund AICC okays dual posts for Narasimha Rao.
2/26/1976V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.
8/25/1994Ramdas Nayak, President of BJP Mumbai and former MLA was assassinated at Chembur, Mumbai. He was 52.