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Historical Event on 12/24/1999

Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/10/1890Sunday introduced as a weekly holiday.
8/26/1949Social Democratic Party led by K. T. Shah formed.
7/21/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission.
6/24/1991Pranab Mukherjee appointed Dy. Chairman of the Planning Commission.
12/20/1990India and Pakistan agree not to attack each other's nuclear installations.
7/20/1898Krishna Kanta Handique, great linguist, educationist, principal of J.B. College and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Jorhat.
3/25/199631st Gyanpith award presented to M.T. Vasudevan Nair at Trivandrum by Dr. Karan Singh.
12/8/1875Tej Bahadur Sapru, great leader, was born.
8/15/1982Doordarshan's national programme and the first nationwide colour transmission started by Delhi Doordarshan.
3/30/1993India forgoes Narmada loan balance because of World Bank's strict regulations.