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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 |
| 12/14/1953 | Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born. |
| 2/9/1964 | Hanumant Singh scores 105 runs on his debut match during the India vs England cricket tournament at Delhi. |
| 9/26/1979 | Charan Singh launches a new party called the Lok Dal. |
| 10/14/1985 | Assam Ganparishad established. |
| 10/21/1959 | Chinese and Indian troops clash on Ladakh border. |
| 2/4/1993 | D. C. Kothari, famous scientist and educationalist, passed away. |
| 2/22/1997 | India outplays Poland in the final hockey `Test' and win series 2-0. |
| 6/19/1931 | Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa. |
| 4/14/1916 | Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari, cricketer (India 1947-48), was born at Mamandur, Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/28/1925 | Raja Ramanna, fourth President of Indian Atomic Energy Commission, was born. |
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