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Historical Event on 1/20/1999
Renowned playwright Girish Karnad is selected for the 1998 Jnanpith Award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/10/1937 | Anant Bhave, famous Marathi litterateur and news announcer on Doordarshan, was born. |
| 11/5/1996 | Madhavrao Scindia rejoins Congress. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 2/7/1687 | Mughal army won the Gowalkonda fort. Kutubshahi came to end. |
| 1/10/1693 | Job Charnock, founder of Calcutta, died in the same city and he was laid to rest. |
| 11/8/2000 | India wins the men's team title in the World Carrom championship in New Delhi. |
| 6/20/1858 | Gwalior fort was captured by British troops and the first Indian Sepoy Mutiny officially came to an end. |
| 8/11/1999 | The last total solar eclipse of the millenium was seen in northern parts of India and France. This eclipse lasted for 2 min and 23 sec. |
| 3/12/1941 | Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India. |
| 6/19/1996 | Kerala LDF govt. decides to reopen the ISRO espionage case, which was closed by the CBI. |
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