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Historical Event on 11/20/1999
World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 6/17/1913 | Waman Vasudev Chitle (Bal Chitle), Marathi story writer and editor, was born. |
| 1/12/1901 | Umashankar Dikshit, senior leader of Indira Congress, was born. |
| 12/5/1943 | The Japanese planes attack Calcutta port. |
| 10/2/1911 | Ambat Menon, great educationist, was born at Chittore, Kerala . |
| 10/15/1997 | Arundhati Roy (37), Delhi-based author wins Britain's most prestigious literary award 'Booker Prize' for her novel "The God of Small Things' |
| 2/7/1931 | Shila Kaul, the chief minister of New Delhi, was born. |
| 1/26/1992 | Bharat Bhushan, the legendary romantic film hero of the 1950's, passed away at the age of 71 years. |
| 8/4/1936 | Indian Government Act was approved by the king. |
| 12/7/1993 | BJP leaders Advani, Joshi and Kalyan Singh arrested in connection with Ayodhya demolition case. |
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