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Historical Event on 12/24/1999

Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/1/1953All Private Airlines were nationalised by establishing of All Airlines India International.
1/31/1948Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder.
8/10/1901Narayan Pillai Gopala Pillai, great poet and educationist, was born in Quilon, Kerala.
11/11/1991Supreme Court declares the Anti-Defection Law as constitutional but holds that decisions of Presiding Officers under the law could be subjected to judicial review.
9/27/1995Cellular phone service operates for the first time in Delhi.
11/27/1972Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan.
5/20/1991A. S. L. V. was launched.
6/13/1879Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born.
8/27/1990The Cabinet Committee on political affairs decides to put a proposal before the Parliament providing five to ten per cent of Central Government jobs reserved for economically weaker sections.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.