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Historical Event on 9/9/1999
Mr. V. Sudarshan, Foreign Editor of The Pioneer till recently gets the Appan Menon Award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/3/1979 | Construction of the main second Howrah Bridge (Vidyasagar Setu) started. |
| 8/1/1997 | Viswanathan Anand wins the Credit Suisse Masters chess tournament in Beil. |
| 11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
| 9/26/1975 | Constitution (39th Amendment) Bill 1975, placing election of the President, Vice President, Prime Minister and Speaker of the Lok Sabha beyond the scrutiny of the judiciary, approved by Parliament. |
| 10/13/1905 | Sister Nivedita died. |
| 10/21/1994 | Government notifies substantial increase in the ceiling on election expenses on Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. |
| 3/1/2000 | Gopichand wins the Indian Oil Servo National badminton championship at Kochi-making it four in a row. |
| 1/12/1996 | Supreme Court holds that horse racing is not gambling, but a game of skill. |
| 11/11/1888 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, freedom fighter, was born in Mecca. He was an outspoken champion of rationalism and progressiveness in all spheres of Indian life. |
| 1/3/1931 | Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born. |
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