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Historical Event on 12/5/1999

India's Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/4/1997Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996.
11/16/1883Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and journalist, was born at Varanasi.
8/10/1982Memorial of 201 martyrs from Maharashtra inaugurated.
6/6/1990GOI decides to extend validity of passports to 10 years.
8/26/1909Dr.Moti Chandra, great historian, was born.
4/1/2000India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran.
5/2/1998The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas.
10/19/1929Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born.
9/24/1995Kanpur University renamed as Chhatrapati Shahu University.
10/23/1996Amjad Ali Khan, sarod maestro, appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.