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Historical Event on 1/16/1999
Ritwick Bhattacharya (Delhi) and Mekhala Subedar (Maharashtra) won the men's and women's titles in the National squash championship in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/15/1912 | Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born. |
| 1/26/1988 | A Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the Goa Postal Division. (11-7-89). |
| 12/19/1994 | Critical stores of IAF were de-inducted by AN-124 contracted by UN. Bulky stores were brought by ship Mogadishu. |
| 1/24/1952 | The first International Film Festival of India held in Bombay, this event had a great impact on Indian Cinema. |
| 1/7/1885 | Madhav Narayan Joshi, comedy drama writer, was born. |
| 10/3/1996 | Second phase of UP polling. |
| 7/10/1999 | The Delhi police arrest Mohammad Javed alias Babu Bhai, an accused in the Jain Hawala case. |
| 9/30/1981 | Pakistan Commando soldiers release 66 hostages in Lahore from five Khalistan hijackers and activists of the Dal Khalsa International. |
| 8/6/1905 | Chittaranjan Das ""Desh Bandhu"", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named ""Swadeshi Mandali"". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'. |
| 2/15/1920 | Kanti Mehta, trade unionist, was born at Calcutta. |
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