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Historical Event on 9/1/1999

Ace athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; coaches Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh (athletics) and Gurbax Singh Sandhu (boxing) the Dronacharya awards during the Arjuna awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/16/1991Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.
4/26/1993Indian Airlines' IC 491 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 55 passengers.
4/23/1929The Fate of the Outlaw', a 7-reel film produced by Majestic Film Co. was prohibited by the Board of Censors, Bombay, on April 23 on the grounds that the film glorifieds crime.
9/19/1937Vishnu Narayan Matkhande passed away.
12/12/1930Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods.
5/13/1962Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) retired from the post of first President.
11/6/1950King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India.
5/5/1983Keshavrao Kothavle 'Lalit', editor of monthly magzine, passed away.
2/28/1936Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland.
2/7/1990Krishan Kant became the Governor of Andhra Pradesh till 21/08/1997.