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Historical Event on 7/4/1999

S. Vijayalakshmi won the National women's `A' chess championship with a round to spare in Kozhikode.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/16/1999The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.
6/29/1909Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born.
12/3/1790Lord Cornwallis took away the regulation power from Nawab Murshidabad and Sadar Nizamat was removed from Adalat in Calcutta.
5/5/1932Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away.
7/8/1988More than 100 people were killed and several injured as Bangalore-Trivandrum Island Express fell into Ashtamudi lake at Perumon in Quilon district of Kerala.
1/22/1998Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra.
1/26/2001Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Ustad Bismillah Khan.
11/3/1997Vice President Krishan Kant presents India's 3-point 'South's positive agenda' at G-15 meet at Kuala Lumpur to ensure a fair deal in the process of globalisation.
2/25/1903Judge Kailas Nath Wanchoo, chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
6/23/2000Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath gets Amnesty International Global award for human rights journalism..