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Historical Event on 10/23/1999
A Boeing 707 carrying Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and his entourage lands safely at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai following a suspected tyre burst.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/14/1636 | Aurangzeb was appointed as Shahjahan by Viceroy of Deccan. |
| 8/11/1999 | Ramnath Parkar, former Indian opening batsman, died in Mumbai. |
| 7/19/1763 | Mir Kasim was defeated in 'Katwa' battle by Britishers. |
| 4/12/1976 | India set 403 to win against the West Indies. |
| 7/25/1992 | R. Venkataraman retired from the post of 8th President. |
| 8/12/1928 | The Olympic Games hosted by Amsterdam fully realized Pierre de Coubertin's vision: 'the nations of the world in friendly competition'. After a succession of Olympics dominated by North America and Western Europe, Amsterdam welcomed more than 3,000 competitors. |
| 1/9/1904 | Pratab Singh Chaudhari, social worker, was born at Multan, Punjab . |
| 7/12/1920 | Siddharthacharry V, educationist and diplomat, was born at Mysore. |
| 5/2/1996 | Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
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