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Historical Event on 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.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/16/1945 | Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) established. |
| 7/1/1962 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great leader, veteran nationalist, politician, professor, physician and architect, passed away. |
| 2/25/1927 | Balkrishna Buwa Echalkaranjikar, father of `Khyal Gayaki', passed away. |
| 10/1/1990 | Constitution's 75th amendment bill to extend President's rule in Punjab for another six months fails through the first stage in Lok Sabha for want of a simple majority. |
| 1/1/1664 | Shivaji assumes royal title. |
| 1/23/2000 | India will be taught a lesson if it tries to cross the LoC, says the Pakistani military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. |
| 3/2/1986 | Kashinath Ghanekar, famous stage artist, passed away. |
| 3/2/1986 | Nizam Shah became the Sultan of Dehli. |
| 6/16/1951 | Nehru opponents founded People's party at New Delhi. |
| 7/5/1947 | Indian Act, 1947 was presented in British Parliament, which was then accepted by the emperor on 18th July. |
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