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Historical Event on 2/10/1999

P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/11/1930Ganesh Narayan R, great Industrialist, was born.
10/15/1995PM leaves for a 12-day tour of Egypt, NAM Summit at Cartagena in Columbia and 50th year United Nations celebrations at New York.
5/26/1948First ever trade agreement with Pakistan.
12/10/1902Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.
4/10/1875Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj at Bombay and in 1877 in Lahore.
2/28/1859Surbhi, farmer lady of Dholi Bavli, Central India, who was arrested for helping her son Bheema Nayak in the freedom movement and was jailed in Mahamandaleshwar jail, passed away.
3/3/1939Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention.
5/16/1975Sikkim High Court was established at Gangtok for Sikkim territory.
9/23/1996Sitaram Kesri elected provisional president of Congress (I).
8/25/1981Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra leader, elected the President of Congress.