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Historical Event on 1/8/1999
Farah Khan made it a double, adding the National ladies snooker title in Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/31/1861 | 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam becomes a world record. |
| 12/8/1980 | Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi. |
| 8/15/1872 | Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry. |
| 1/3/1931 | Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born. |
| 11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
| 12/8/1996 | Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest cricketer to make 3000 runs in test cricket (at the age of 23 yrs and 228 days.) |
| 11/1/1973 | Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were renamed as Lakshadweep, and Masker (Mysore) state renamed as Karnataka. |
| 10/25/1999 | US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson arrives. |
| 3/12/1988 | Samresh Basu, famous Bengali writer, passed away. |
| 2/7/1992 | Shalki', the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy. |
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