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Historical Event on 12/11/1999

Leander Paes capped a brilliant year with his successive Challenger title, this time in Jaipur, beating Barry Cowan in the final.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/3/1991Satinder Kumar Lamba appointed India's Ambassador to Pakistan.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
6/19/1877Pandurang Chimanaji Patil, famous agriculturist of Maharashtra, was born.
12/20/1946Gandhiji completes his month-long sojourn at Srirampur.
1/6/1993India and Bhutan sign agreement on the giant Sankosh hydro-electric project.
7/20/1991Chithira Tirunal Bala Rama Varma, former Maharaja of Travancore, passed away at the age of 78 years after a brief illness. His term as the descendant of the Chera dynasty saw many progressive reforms in the field of legislation, education and many more. He was hailed as ""Ashoka the second"", and Gandhiji parised him as a ""Historical wonder"".
3/2/1997Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit.
12/11/1987Rajiv Government defeats the first ever no-confidence motion.
2/12/1928Lalit Mohan Sharma, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.
5/27/1930Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was arrested during Salt Movement.