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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
6/4/1902Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928), was born.
8/1/1963Soviets offer India arms to block China.
6/21/1998India and Russia sign a $2.5-billion deal to set up a nuclear power station at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu.
6/29/1873Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, 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.
6/8/1936Akashwani Radio was later changed into All India Radio (AIR) in 1958.
12/25/1991Ajit Singh expelled from the JD.
12/25/1991Muiz ud din Qaiqabad, was the tenth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty), was killed in his bed. He was proved to be an inefficient ruler.
11/19/1961World Council of Churches convened their third assembly at New Delhi during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.
3/1/1996Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of PM Rao and directs that CBI would take no instruction or permission from or report to any authority personally interested in or likely to be affected by the investigation into the hawala case.