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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
1/29/1998Suicide by more than 50 farmers reported in the Telangana region in the past few days.
11/8/1960Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
10/21/1999B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
10/1/1997Parliamentarian and All-India Forward Bloc general secretary, Chitta Basu died during his journey by Howrah-bound Danaput Express from Patna. He was 72.
4/27/1907Fearing uprising in Punjab, British arm volunteers.
3/20/2000Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.
3/27/1997Punjab men and Railway women win National volleyball league in Tiruppur.
8/19/1757The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East India Company.
10/15/1931Avil Pakir Jalaluddin Abdul Kalam better known as "APJ", famous Indian scientist, was born in the temple town of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. He is the pioneer of India's missile programme and was awarded the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, in 1997, for his immense and valuable contribution to scientific research and modernisation of defence technol
6/11/1932Minu Modi, famous industrialist, was born.