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Historical Event on 11/5/1999

India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/21/1969First India built electronic digital computer commissioned.
4/3/1670Tanaji Malusure, right hand of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, passed away during the battle of Singhgad fort.
4/11/1887Jamini Roy, famous artist, was born.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.á
10/4/1993PM surveys the quake-hit villages and sanctioned Rs. 50 crore.
9/21/1997Mahesh Bhupathi wins a cliff-hanger as India clinches Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against Chile 3-2 in Delhi.
4/24/1959Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
7/27/1949Agreement reached on the ceasefire line in Kashmir.
1/14/1938Belur Math, new temple, was consecrated in Calcutta.
4/20/1997Sheri Bamboat and Hamshad Bamboat win National sea-bird sailing title.