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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.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/11/2000Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.
8/11/2000ShahJahan, Mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore.
11/6/1993First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly.
9/21/1945British promise India independence.
7/9/1994Surendranath, Governor of Punjab, died.
8/7/1988N. T. Ramarao elected chairman and V.P. Singh the convenor of the National Front.
12/28/1928First talkie feature film 'Melody of Love' was released in India. The film was made by Universal Picture Corporation, America. It's premier was held at Elphinstone Picture Palace, Calcutta.
6/17/1994Twelve opposition legislators in Sikkim resign.
6/21/1998India and Russia sign a $2.5-billion deal to set up a nuclear power station at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu.
6/30/1914Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest during campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa.