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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
1/15/1888	Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar.
2/21/1952	General Election ( 1st) of India ends.
1/2/1878	Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and first president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, was born at Perunna village, Kerala State.
3/1/1909	First Indian Iron Company 'Tata Iron and Steel' established.
6/6/1999	Paes-Bhupathi bagged their maiden Grand Slam doubles crown, defeating Goran Ivanisevic and Jeff Tarango in the final.
4/2/1980	S. S. Grewal was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-04-1981.
10/16/1976	Jalgaon Radio Station started broadcasting.
10/23/1824	Rani Chainema fight with the Britishers at a 'killa' (fort) in Kitur.
4/9/1974	India, Pakistan, Bangladesh reach pact to exchange prisoners of 1971 war in New Delhi.
1/5/1994	Jnanpith Award was given to U. R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada).

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