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Historical Event on 9/24/1999

India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1964Battles between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta.
9/11/1993Former Andhra CM Rama Rao, 71, weds 44-year-old college lecturer Lakshmi Sivaparvathi.
12/10/1993The residence of Mahatma Phule was declared a national monument.
1/27/1967Delimitation Agreement for Warfare in space was signed by 60 nations in United Nation.
8/19/1944The last Japanese troops driven out of India.
1/23/1999An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district.
4/12/1983Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' wins 8 Oscars.
1/27/1984First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam.
3/10/2000Nirmal Verma, distinguished Hindi writer, and eminent Punjabi novelist Gurchal Singh selected jointly for the 35th Jnanpith Award for 1999.
4/2/1993MP High Court quashes dismissal of BJP Government under article 356; the Centre decides to move the Supreme Court.