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Historical Event on 9/11/1999

India's Sachin Ratti won the men's singles title in the New Zealand International Badminton championship, defeating top seed and world No. 23 Rio Suryana of Australia in the final.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/8/1998Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, gets the Gandhi award for 1998.
6/28/1996India opens its office (based in Gaza city) in the area under the Palestinian Authority.
7/25/1977Neelam Sanjiva Reddy became the sixth President of India. His held this office till July 25, 1982.
9/8/2000Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries.
1/6/1953Stalin Peace Prize awarded to Dr. S. Kitchlew.
3/27/1989T. N. Seshan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 23-12-1989.
5/6/1775Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested.
10/11/1876Saint Gadgebaba, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
1/30/1996Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.
2/15/1976The Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE) was established at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.