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Historical Event on 10/16/1999

Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the "Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99'

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/27/1999IAF loses two fighter aircrafts in the Kargil area. Pakistan claims it has Flight Lieutenant Nachiketa in its custody.
11/24/1992Milan Kumar Banerjee appointed Attorney General.
9/17/1954India outlaws bigamy.
2/5/1949Judgement on Gandhi's murder; Godse and Apte to be executed.
6/13/1932Nirmalchandra Sen, great revolutionary, died.
4/7/1929England's Imperial Airways had extended its flight to London-Karachi instead of London-Kahira. It was the first commercial air service in undivided India.
4/7/1929Akbar Abul-Fath Djalaluddin, third Mughal Emperor of India (1556-1605), was born at Amarkot in Sind under the protection of Rana Virsal. Humayun had also taken refuge at Amarkot.
4/15/1998Punjab men and Railways women emerge champions in the National Volleyball League in Patna.
12/3/1971During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began.
6/18/1974Govinddas Seth, Hindi litterateur and politician, died.