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Historical Event on 11/20/1999

World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy.

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7/10/1998India says it wont sign the CTBT unconditionally and invites Pakistan to join in disarmament efforts.
12/1/1921Des Raj Kalia, great librarian, was born at Fazilka, Punjab.
11/5/1931M. G. Subramaniam, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1983-84, was born in Karnataka.
8/1/1963Soviets offer India arms to block China.
3/17/1943Indian troops retreat from Rathedaung to Buthidaung in the face of a renewed Japanese offensive on the Arakan front in Burma.
10/26/1950Mother Teresa founded Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India.
4/27/1942Gandhi condemns stationing of U.S. troops in India.
2/16/1997Tribal militants kill 21 persons in Tripura.
6/25/1932India played their first official test match on the ground of Lords against England.