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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
1/21/1924Professor Madhu Dandavate, former Finance Minister, was born at Ahmednagar.
4/7/1934Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience in India.
4/7/1934Vasco De Gama departed with his fleet from Lisbon Harbour for a trip to India .
12/23/1919King's proclamation was made that the new reforms of Government of India offer some sort of self government.
2/28/1951Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot.
7/5/1916Indian Women's University was established at Hingne near Poona by Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve with just four students. After 1920, it was renamed as Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Indian Women's University.
10/19/1979T. R. Baalu was born in Thalikottai, Distt. Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu).
8/28/1879Battle at Ulundi, Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz.
9/22/1931Gandhi meets Charlie Chaplin in London.
4/16/2000India wins the second leg of the pre-olympic hockey tournament at Perth.