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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
3/11/1984India's first modern boas `Jalusha' started from Vishakhapattanam.
4/24/199824 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.
12/22/1945Shridhar Balkrishna Kulkarni (Pathe Bapurao), famous poet known for instant poetry and Marathi folk song writer, died.
5/7/195081 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected.
12/31/1966Bishen Singh Bedi made his Test Cricket debut vs West Indies at Calcutta.
11/14/1681East India Company declared Bengal as a seperate presidency.
10/30/1887Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born.
6/17/1903Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born.
8/25/1960Olympics opened at Rome.
4/18/1859Tatya Tope (his original name was Ramchandra Raghunath Tope) a leader of Sepoy Mutiny, was captured in April, courtmarshalled and hanged at Sivpuri for 1857 Indian Mutiny.