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Historical Event on 10/31/1999

Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/26/2001Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Ustad Bismillah Khan.
7/12/1999Rajendra Kumar (71), legendary actor who acted in over 150 Hindi films, died in Mumbai.
9/9/1991Gold ornaments pledged by the Goans to the Portugese bank returned to owners.
7/1/1996RBI reduces cash reserve ratio to 12\%.
1/1/199730-year Ganga water sharing treaty between India and Bangladesh takes effect.
12/22/2000Three Army jawans die in an attack by a suicide squad of Lakshar-e-Taiba at the Red Fort in Delhi leading to a 45-minute gun-battle.
3/4/1906Hakim Abdul Majid started his medial dispensary under the name of Hamdard Dawakhana at Delhi.
9/4/1990Congress (I) opposes the Prasar Bharati Bill in the Rajya Sabha saying the party wants the bill to be sent to a select committee.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
1/14/1994The first Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, instituted by ICMR in 1991-92, was announced in 1994 (Dr. G. Padamanabhan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the first recipient of this Award).