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Historical Event on 9/1/1999
Ace athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; coaches Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh (athletics) and Gurbax Singh Sandhu (boxing) the Dronacharya awards during the Arjuna awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/29/1965 | Indian Everest team sets a world record by climbing the Everest for the fourth time. |
| 7/27/1993 | Rao government defeats the no-confidence motion by 265-251 votes. Seven of the JD (A) vote with government as JD (A) and AIADMK decide to vote for no-confidence motion. |
| 4/15/1984 | Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab, India. |
| 11/28/1997 | Seven-month-old United Front government, headed by Prime Minister I.K Gujral, bows out of office. |
| 1/18/1925 | Gajanan Johari, famous Marathi writer, was born. |
| 4/25/1955 | Syed Mohammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, writer, professor and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, passed away. |
| 2/18/1823 | Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born. |
| 9/15/1861 | Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family. |
| 5/31/1977 | Major Premchand and Naik Nima Dorji Sherpa, in the team on Indian Army Treckers, reached the peak of Kanchenjunga. They were amongst the first Indians to reach this peak. |
| 12/27/1975 | 372 miners die in a huge blast in Bihar state. |
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