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Historical Event on 11/24/1999

India finish with 10 gold, eight silver and seven bronze medals in the Commonwealth shooting championship which ended in Auckland.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
7/27/1986The Supreme Court orders all-India test for medical seats.
8/11/1999The last total solar eclipse of the millenium was seen in northern parts of India and France. This eclipse lasted for 2 min and 23 sec.
3/7/1994India and Iran sign three MoU in Tehran.
7/1/1997Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme `97 (VDIS) comes into effect.
10/9/2000The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle.
5/8/1930Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest.
5/27/1962Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri, cricketer (Indian SLA all-rounder 1981-92), was born in Bombay.
3/17/1955Indian Standard's Institute started working to control the quality of Indian products and the ISI mark was issued to quality products.
3/17/1955Mahmud Gawan was appointed as Prime Minister, an office which he held till his execution.