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Historical Event on 6/6/1999

Paes-Bhupathi bagged their maiden Grand Slam doubles crown, defeating Goran Ivanisevic and Jeff Tarango in the final.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/11/1999India's Sachin Ratti won the men's singles title in the New Zealand International Badminton championship, defeating top seed and world No. 23 Rio Suryana of Australia in the final.
5/2/1968Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act.
7/6/1992The centre decides to allow TV and Radio time slots for private producers.
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.
6/17/1903Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born.
3/10/1922Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati.
8/16/1991C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away.
5/14/1956Govt announces that decimal coinage will be introduced in India from April 1, 1957.
2/7/1908Manmanath Gupta was born.
9/8/1965Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division.