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Historical Event on 6/21/1999
Leander Paes was seeded number one in double's ranking. This was his highest double ranking.
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| 10/16/1878 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala. |
| 10/16/1878 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Count of Vidigueira, met the Jamerin of Calicut after arriving in India three days ago at Malabar Coast. He was joined by an experienced Gujarati pilot at Malindi. He was the 6th Governor and 2nd Viceroy of India. |
| 6/1/1997 | Ghulam Rasool Wani, National Conference leader, kidnapped and shot dead by militants at Kaskot in Doda district, Jammu. |
| 1/26/1926 | V. G. Kanitkar, famous Marathi literatteur, was born. |
| 7/28/1994 | Uproar in Parliament over the Government's rejection of JPC report. |
| 11/24/1924 | Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman, famous political cartoonist, was born. |
| 7/12/1896 | Dangambarrao G. Bindu, politician and father of Hydrabad Liberation Party, was born. |
| 12/30/1865 | Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay. |
| 1/16/1996 | Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership. |
| 7/30/1920 | Rikhye Maj-Gen Indar Jit, Educationist and Former Army Officer, was born at Lahore. |
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