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Historical Event on 7/4/1999

S. Vijayalakshmi won the National women's `A' chess championship with a round to spare in Kozhikode.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/12/1995India refused to sign NPT in its present discriminatory form.
4/21/1938Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet, passed away.
3/28/1956Tirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar, great Indian cricket pace-bowler (2 Tests 1982-83 little impact), was born in Madras.
8/17/1761William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people.
12/20/1956Saint Gadgebaba died.
4/17/1941Office of Price Administration was formed which handled the rationing of essential commodities.
8/18/1900Vijayalakshmi Pandit, first woman President of U.N.O. General Assembly, was born.
3/1/1992Anant Gundopant Tendulkar, great journalist, passed away.
2/15/1924Shankarrao Bajirao Patil, great leader of Maharashtra, was born.
12/22/1877Shreenivas Ramanujam, famous Indian mathematician, was born.