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Historical Event on 12/13/1999

Dr. V. Kurien gets the Paulos Mar Gregorius Award 1999.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
4/20/1989President's rule imposed in Karnataka.
8/4/1967World's longest and highest Dam 'Nagarjun Sagar' made by Masonary System was inaugrated.
10/3/1957Republican Party of India established.
2/5/1924Gandhiji was released after operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Poona.
1/26/1927Laxman Madhav Katre, former Indian Air Chief Marshall, was born.
8/13/1951First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India.
3/19/1936Satydev Dubey, stage artist, was born.
9/9/2000Venus Williams wins the women's singles in the U.S. Open championship.
4/13/1963Babu Gulab Rai, famous hindi critic, passed away.