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Historical Event on 9/1/1999

Ace athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; coaches Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh (athletics) and Gurbax Singh Sandhu (boxing) the Dronacharya awards during the Arjuna awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/15/1998Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai.
12/30/1993Government gets majority when 10 members of Ajit faction of the JD merge with the Congress.
6/9/1991Raj Khosla, famous film producer and director, passed away.
5/25/1999The Prime Minister declares the Centre will take all possible steps to push back infiltrators in Kargil.
12/23/1926Swami Shradhanand, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker and politician, was assassinated by a revolver shot that was fired by a young Muslim Abdul Rashid.
11/20/1993RBI clears two more private banks: The Times Bank Ltd. and the Indus Ind Bank Ltd.
8/15/1997IWM Vijayalakshmi wins Asian Zonal Women's Chess tournament in Tehran.
12/4/1910Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born.
8/18/1985Assam Assembly dissolved (18).
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)