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Historical Event on 11/5/1999
India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/20/1991 | Indian Oil Executive Director K. Doraiswamy released after 52 days of being in the custody of Kashmir ultras. |
| 4/13/1947 | Diplomatic relations between India and Russia established. |
| 3/21/1979 | The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988). |
| 1/6/1664 | Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked on Surat. |
| 9/13/1965 | Pakistanis bomb Bombay. |
| 10/20/1905 | Mohansing Mahir, famous modern Punjabi poet, was born. |
| 10/15/1987 | Times Eye Research Foundation was established in Amritsar, India. |
| 9/8/1982 | Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Kashmir, who dominated the political scene of Jammu and Kashmir for 50 years, died. He was 77. |
| 1/20/1990 | Dr. Raja Ramanna sworn in Minister of State for Defence. |
| 2/6/1932 | Veena Das, revolutionary freedom fighter, shot Stenly Jackson, Governor of Calcutta at the convocation ceremony of B.A. degree, but Jackson was afraid and bend down, thus the aim was missed. |
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